- Collection:
- AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records
- Title:
- Mississippi AFL-CIO State COPE Committee, meeting minutes, 1968
- Creator:
- AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Mississippi AFL-CIO
AFL-CIO. Committee on Political Education
AFL-CIO. Mississippi Committee on Political Education
Ramsay, Claude E. (Claude Elwood), 1916-1986 - Date of Original:
- 1968
- Subject:
- Labor leaders
Labor unions
Labor union members
Labor unions--Officials and employees
Labor unions--Political activity
Labor unions--Elections
Civil rights
AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Mississippi AFL-CIO
AFL-CIO. Committee on Political Education
AFL-CIO. Mississippi Committee on Political Education - People:
- Ramsay, Claude E. (Claude Elwood), 1916-1986
Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 - Location:
- United States, Mississippi, Hinds County, Jackson, 32.29876, -90.18481
- Medium:
- files (document groupings)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Shortly after the merger in 1955, the AFL-CIO set up a Civil Rights Department, which was designed to investigate various fields of civil rights activity.
The Records, 1963-1972, of the Civil Rights Department of the AFL-CIO Southern Region consist primarily of printed material and correspondence of private groups, government commissions, and committees from organized labor, working in the various fields of civil rights activity--equal and open housing, school desegregation, human relations, and fair and equal employment opportunities.
Consists of the minutes of the September 7, 1968 meeting of the Mississippi AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education (COPE). The participants discuss whether or not to promote the presidential campaign of Hubert Humphrey, given the extreme popularity of George Wallace with Mississippi voters. Ultimately the participants vote to support Humphrey, and reaffirm the importance of civil rights to organized labor in Mississippi. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/AFLCIO/id/27862
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: L1973-05_174_07, AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Southern Region records, Southern Labor Archives, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University, Atlanta.
- Extent:
- 7 pages
- Original Collection:
- Box 174
Southern Labor Archives
https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/230
AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Southern Region records (L1973-05) - Contributing Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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