Ernest Thompson PapersA union official who helped found the National Negro Labor Council, Ernest Thompson (1907-1971) was also a community activist who helped bring about political and economic gains for African Americans in Orange, N.J., and nearby communities. His papers consist of files on the National Negro Labor Council, the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America's National Fair Practices Committee, Citizens for Representative Government (Orange, N.J.), files relating to various northeastern New Jersey citizens' groups, photographs, and notes, correspondence, and draft chapters of Homeboy Came to Orange (1976) by Thompson and his daughter, Mindy Thompson, and of The National Negro Labor Council (1978) by Mindy Thompson. The papers consist of correspondence, notes, speeches, memoranda, resolutions, minutes, reports, position papers, court and other legal documents, budgets and program proposals, press releases, printed matter, press clippings, photographs, drafts of writings, resumes, lists of names and addresses, and scripts of radio programs and plays.