- Collection:
- AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records
- Title:
- Coalition for a March on Reidsville, newsletters and printed materials, 1979
- Creator:
- AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Coalition for a March on Reidsville
Bond, Julian, 1940-2015
Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000
Gregory, Dick
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 - Date of Original:
- 1979
- Subject:
- Prisons
Prisoners
African American prisoners
Prison violence
Demonstrations
Civil rights
AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Coalition for a March on Reidsville - People:
- Bond, Julian, 1940-2015
Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000
Gregory, Dick
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Tattnall County, Reidsville, 32.08686, -82.1179
- Medium:
- files (document groupings)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Consists of mailings of the Coalition for a March on Reidsville regarding efforts to organize a march against the death penalty and in support of African American inmates accused of killing a guard at the Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Georgia. Includes an call for volunteers to participate in the march on August 11, 1979, as well as a follow-up call for a second march on August 18 in support of both the inmates and activists arrested during the initial march.
AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department, Southeastern Office records, 1974-1984, consists of correspondence and printed materials pertaining to E.T. Kehrer's involvement with community action groups. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/AFLCIO/id/36642
- IIIF manifest:
- ["https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/AFLCIO:36642/manifest.json"]
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- L1985-16_10_1804_284, Series X: Coalition for a March on Reidsville, 1979, AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Southeastern Office records, Southern Labor Archives, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University, Atlanta.
- Extent:
- 6 pages
- Original Collection:
- Printed Material, Newsletters
Southern Labor Archives
https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/408
1804
Series X: Coalition for a March on Reidsville, 1979
AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Southeastern Office records (L1985-16) - Contributing Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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