- Collection:
- AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records
- Title:
- Alabama voter literacy test documents, c. 1965
- Creator:
- AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Alabama State Chamber of Commerce
Alabama Bankers Association
Alabama Textile Manufacturers Association
Associated Industries of Alabama - Date of Original:
- 1965
- Subject:
- Voter suppression
Literacy tests (Election law)
Civil rights
AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Alabama State Chamber of Commerce
Alabama Bankers Association
Alabama Textile Manufacturers Association
Associated Industries of Alabama
U.S. News & World Report (Firm) - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- files (document groupings)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Consists of documents related to the use of literacy tests for voting in Alabama. Includes a political advertisement taken out by Alabama business organizations in the April 26, 1965 issue of U.S. News and World Report, expressing qualified support for literacy tests. Also includes copies of portions of an Alabama literacy test that have been filled out by AFL-CIO staff.
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/22407
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: L1983-26_05_1600_105, AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Southern Office Records, Southern Labor Archives, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University, Atlanta.
- Extent:
- 21 pages
- Original Collection:
- Alabama voter literacy test documents, c. 1965
Southern Labor Archives
https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/488
1600
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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