- Collection:
- AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records
- Title:
- General correspondence, 1965, 1968 and undated
- Creator:
- AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Southern Regional Council
American Jewish Committee
B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League
Aronson, Arnold, 1911-
Penn Community Services
Workers' Defense League
AFL-CIO. Building and Construction Trades Department
Georgia State AFL-CIO
Mississippi AFL-CIO
Ramsay, Claude E., 1916-1986
United States Commission on Civil Rights
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987
Siceloff, Courtney
Morris, John B., 1930-2010 - Date of Original:
- 1965
1968 - Subject:
- Labor leaders
Labor unions
Labor union members
African American labor union members
Labor unions--Political activity
Community activists
Civil rights
Civil rights workers
African American civil rights workers
Civil rights workers--Crimes against
Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism
Antisemitism
Discrimination in housing
Housing policy
Low-income housing
AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Southern Regional Council
American Jewish Committee
B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League
Penn Community Services
Workers' Defense League
AFL-CIO. Building and Construction Trades Department
Georgia State AFL-CIO
Mississippi AFL-CIO
United States Commission on Civil Rights - People:
- Kehrer, E. T., 1921-1996
Aronson, Arnold, 1911-
Ramsay, Claude E. (Claude Elwood), 1916-1986
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987
Siceloff, Courtney
Morris, John B., 1930-2010 - Location:
- Lebanon, Beyrouth, Beirut, 33.89332, 35.50157
United States, Georgia, Atlanta Metropolitan Area, 33.8498, 84.4383
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702 - 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 and the League for Industrial Democracy (LID). Topics include Leadership Conference political bulletins, fair housing initiatives in Atlanta, Denver, and other cities, recommendations from the American Jewish Committee on civil rights organizing by Jewish groups, and a 1968 analysis of the Mississippi AFL-CIO Program for Progress initiative.
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/28650
- IIIF manifest:
- ["https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/AFLCIO:28650/manifest.json"]
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- L1973-05_173_03, AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Southern Region records, Southern Labor Archives, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University, Atlanta.
- Extent:
- 150 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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