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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

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Chalmer Snably, February 14, 1940
Created: February 14, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe thanks Snably for reporting a case of discrimination and urges him to take up the case with his local official
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Charles M. Smith, Counsel of Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Company, April 16, 1941
Created: April 16, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe tells Smith that his company has indeed discriminated against deaf employees and that the National Association of the Deaf is prepared to fight
Subject: Safety and health at work, Discrimination in employment--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Colonel F.C. Harrington, January 6, 1940
Created: January 6, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe asks Harrington to take action on the Work Projects Administration's new policies that bar deaf workers from employment
Subject: United States. Work Projects Administration, Workers' compensation Law and legislation, Discrimination in employment--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Dow Harter, January 6, 1940
Created: January 6, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe appeals to congressmen for help in combating discrimination in Work Projects Administration regulations
Subject: United States. Work Projects Administration, Discrimination in employment--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to E.R. Abernathy, January 12, 1940
Created: January 12, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe points out that state regulations may contradict federal regulations in this case.
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to E.R. Abernathy, January 23, 1940
Created: January 23, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe calls for the rewording of certain regulations
Subject: United States. Work Projects Administration, Discrimination in employment--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Ernest G. Draper, April 1, 1940
Created: April 1, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe asks Draper if an interview with officials will make a difference
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Ernest G. Draper, January 19, 1940
Created: January 19, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe quotes regulation to Draper and asks if those are actually federally or state based.
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Ernest G. Draper, January 22, 1940
Created: January 22, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe appeals to Draper to help clarify the federal and state regulations in the Work Projects Administration case.
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Fred R. Rauch, April 13, 1940
Created: April 13, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe arranges a meeting with Rauch and asks to review certain records regarding deaf accidents at work
Subject: United States. Work Projects Administration, Vocabulary--Deaf, Safety and health at work, Discrimination in employment--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to H.J. Summers, President of St. Louis Division of the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf, January 12, 1942
Created: January 12, 1942
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe outlines various evidence that supports the case of deaf employment and asks Summers to deal with local discrimination in St. Louis
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Safety and health at work

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Howard L. Benshoof, August 13, 1941
Created: August 13, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe offers advice to Benshoof
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Deaf--Employment--Statistics, Safety and health at work

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Howard L. Benshoof, September 22, 1941
Created: September 22, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe reports to Benshoof some research results regarding discrimination
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf

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