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Title: Building for Tomorrow, Benjamin M. Schowe, August 16, 1940
Created: August 16, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe expresses concern about increased discrimination against deaf employees
Subject: Safety and health at work, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Labor Unions, United States. Work Projects Administration, Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Worker's Compensation--Deaf

Title: The Deaf At Work by Benjamin M. Schowe, October 22, 1957
Created: October 22, 1957
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe discusses the future of deaf employment and explores why Akron has many deaf employees compared to other cities
Subject: Vocational Rehabilitation--Deaf, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Communication--Deaf, Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Occupational Training, Lipreading

Title: The Deaf Wage-Earners: A Study in Adjustment to Occupation, Benjamin M. Schowe, no date
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Long article about deaf employment by Schowe, includes a lengthy comparsion to deaf employment in Great Britain
Subject: Occupational Training, Segregation, Safety and health at work, Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, World War II, Communication--Deaf, War Manpower, Lipreading, Worker's Compensation--Deaf, Vocabulary--Deaf, Sign Language--American, Job placement--Deaf, Oralism vs. manualism debate

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe on the behalf of the Akron division of the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf to Fred R. Rauch, January 30, 1940
Created: January 30, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe asks Rauch to clarify a regulation
Subject: United States. Work Projects Administration, Discrimination in employment--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to A.G. Leisman, August 13, 1940
Created: August 13, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe informs Leisman that the federal authorities won't tolerate discrimination but that it may still happen locally
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to A.G. Leisman, August 29, 1940
Created: August 29, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe outlines a strategy for Leisman to catch Pierce discriminating against deaf workers
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to A.G. Leisman, October 26,1940
Created: October 26, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Discrimination has improved in Wisconsin
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to A.L. Roberts, April 30, 1940
Created: April 30, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe reports to Roberts about his meeting in Washington and mentions expenditures
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Safety and health at work, United States. Work Projects Administration

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to A.L. Roberts, February 10, 1940
Created: February 10, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe urges for increased action
Subject: United States. Work Projects Administration, Discrimination in employment--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to A.L. Roberts, January 16, 1940
Created: January 16, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe asks Roberts to publish a letter in the Frat about discrimination against deaf workers by the Work Projects Administration
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to A.L. Roberts, March 27, 1940
Created: March 27, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe discusses material for their petition.
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Ann Murray, Assistant Supervisor of PWA Projects, December 10, 1937
Created: December 10, 1937
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe is concerned that if immediate action is not taken, deaf workers would lose their chance at employment
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Employment Opportunities--Disabilities--United States

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Arthur L. Roberts, March 21, 1940
Created: March 21, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe asks Roberts to help the committee out with its expenses
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Boyce R. Williams, April 16, 1954
Created: April 16, 1954
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe claims that discrimination is difficult to define and capture
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Brothers Ayers and Robinson, April 12, 1940
Created: April 12, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe disputes Rauch's arguments and defense of the regulations banning deaf employment
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Vocabulary--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Brothers Ayers and Robinson, April 12, 1940
Created: April 12, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe brings up arguments about Rauch's letter to Ayers
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Vocabulary--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Brothers Ayers and Robinson, January 3, 1940
Created: January 3, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe outlines a plan of action to challenge the WPA's decision to exclude the deaf from manual labor
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Byron B. Burnes, April 19, 1941
Created: April 19, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe asks Burnes about what is going on with Tom L. Anderson and suggests that placement officers have thus far demonstrated great interest in the pamphlets
Subject: Unemployment--Deaf, Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Job placement--Deaf, Marketing channels

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Byron B. Burnes, April 8, 1941
Created: April 8, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe describes his scheme of distributing pamphlets to Burnes.
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Job placement--Deaf, Vocational Rehabilitation--Deaf, Marketing channels, Worker's Compensation--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Carl Watson, January 6, 1940
Created: January 6, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe follows up with Watson about the new regulations posted by the Work Projects Administration
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Worker's Compensation--Deaf

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