Mississippi AFL-CIO, correspondence, 1964-1971

Collection:: AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records
Title:: Mississippi AFL-CIO, correspondence, 1964-1971
Creator:: AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Kehrer, E.T., 1921-1996
Mississippi AFL-CIO
Ramsay, Claude E. (Claude Elwood), 1916-1986
Dunbar, Leslie
Spence, John W.
Date of Original:: 1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
Subject:: Labor unions
Labor leaders
Labor union members
African American labor union members
Civil rights
Labor unions--Organizing
Metal-workers--Labor unions
Labor unions--Political activity
Labor unions--Elections
AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Mississippi AFL-CIO
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Diamond National Corporation
Pascagoula Metal Trades Council
Litton Industries
Ingalls Shipbuilding
AFL-CIO. Committee on Political Education
Southern Regional Council
United States Commission on Civil Rights
People:: Kehrer, E. T., 1921-1996
Ramsay, Claude E. (Claude Elwood), 1916-1986
Jackson, Wharlest
Barkan, Alexander E.
Meany, George, 1894-1980
Evers, Charles, 1922-2020
Location:: United States, Mississippi, Adams County, Natchez, 31.56017, -91.40329
United States, Mississippi, Jackson County, Pascagoula, 30.36576, -88.55613
Medium:: files (document groupings)
Type:: Text
Format:: application/pdf
Description:: Consists primarily of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with Claude Ramsay, President of the Mississippi AFL-CIO. Topics include the 1967 assassination of Mississippi NAACP activist and union member Wharlest Jackson, 1969 union elections at the Diamond National Corporation plant in Natchez, Mississippi, and the and the involvement of the AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department in labor negotiations at the Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
The records, 1964-1979, of the Southern Office of the AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department consist primarily of correspondence and related reports, surveys, statements, and newspaper clippings. Much of the correspondence is between Director E.T. (Al) Kehrer and various AFL-CIO departments, notably his superiors Don Slaiman (1965-1974) and William Pollard (1974-1979). There is also substantial correspondence between Kehrer and the AFL-CIO state and city labor councils in the South; apprenticeship and training programs; a wide range of groups and persons concerned with community action and social reform issues, principally in the field of civil rights; and political figures.
Metadata URL:: http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/AFLCIO/id/14734
Language:: eng
Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):: Cite as: L1983-26_01_02_1595_46, AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Southern Office Records, Southern Labor Archives, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University, Atlanta.
Extent:: 53 pages
Original Collection:: Mississippi AFL-CIO, correspondence, 1964-1971
Southern Labor Archives
https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/429
1595
AFL-CIO Departments, 1964-1979
AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Southern Office Records (L1983-26)
Contributing Institution:: Georgia State University. Special Collections
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