- Collection:
- AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records
- Title:
- General correspondence, 1970-1971 and undated
- Creator:
- AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Aronson, Arnold, 1911-
Mississippi Council on Human Relations
Deal, Kenneth L.
Georgia State AFL-CIO
Mabry, Herbert Norris
Virginia State AFL-CIO
Arkansas State AFL-CIO
Becker, J. Bill (Jerome Bill), 1924-1997
Florida AFL-CIO
Texas AFL-CIO
Community Council of the Atlanta Area
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987
B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League
Jewish Labor Committee (U.S.)
League for Industrial Democracy
Mississippi AFL-CIO - Date of Original:
- 1970/1971
- Subject:
- Labor leaders
Labor unions
Labor union members
African American labor union members
Labor unions--Political activity
Community activists
Strikes and lockouts
Strikes and lockouts--Public utilities
Boycotts
Discrimination in employment
Affirmative action programs
Student movements
African Americans--Violence against
Police brutality
AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Mississippi Council on Human Relations
Georgia State AFL-CIO
Virginia State AFL-CIO
Arkansas State AFL-CIO
Florida AFL-CIO
Texas AFL-CIO
Community Council of the Atlanta Area
B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League
Jewish Labor Committee (U.S.)
League for Industrial Democracy
Mississippi AFL-CIO
Jackson State College
United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - People:
- Aronson, Arnold, 1911-
Deal, Kenneth L.
Becker, J. Bill, 1924-1997
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987
Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993 - 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.
Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with various labor, civil rights, and social service organizations, primarily the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Mississippi Council on Human Relations, Georgia State AFL-CIO, and the Arkansas State AFL-CIO. Topics include Leadership Conference political bulletins, calls to support striking workers in Arkansas, and planning for state AFL-CIO conferences in Georgia and Virginia. Also includes statements and grand jury testimony related to the 1970 police killings of student protesters at Jackson State College in Jackson, Mississippi.
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. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/AFLCIO/id/28021
- IIIF manifest:
- ["https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/AFLCIO:28021/manifest.json"]
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- L1973-05_173_05, AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Southern Region records, Southern Labor Archives, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University, Atlanta.
- Extent:
- 158 pages
- Original Collection:
- Box 173
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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