- Collection:
- AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records
- Title:
- Wallace, George and Lurleen, correspondence, 1966-1967
- Creator:
- AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Kehrer, E.T., 1921-1996 - Date of Original:
- 1966
1967 - Subject:
- Labor leaders
Civil rights workers
African American civil rights workers
Labor unions--Political activity
Segregation
Governors
AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - People:
- Kehrer, E. T., 1921-1996
Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998
Wallace, Lurleen, 1926-1968
Maddox, Lester, 1915-2003 - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- files (document groupings)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Consists primarily of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer regarding the his opposition to the 1967 official visit of George and Lurleen Wallace to Georgia. Contents include planning correspondence among Atlanta-area labor and civil rights activists to organize opposition to the visit and a letter to Kehrer from an Alabama resident criticizing him for his public remarks against the Wallaces. Also includes publicity materials created in opposition to the visit and newspaper articles on the anti-Wallace campaign.
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/14762
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: L1983-26_05_1608_221, AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Southern Office Records, Southern Labor Archives, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University, Atlanta.
- Extent:
- 23 pages
- Original Collection:
- Wallace, George and Lurleen, correspondence, 1966-1967
Southern Labor Archives
https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/604
1608
Subject Files, 1964-1978
AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Southern Office Records (L1983-26) - Contributing Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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