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Ad Hoc Labor Committee History

Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Title:: Ad Hoc Labor Committee History
Date of Original:: 1956/1979
Subject:: Labor movement
Civil rights
Location:: United States, 39.76, -98.5
Medium:: records (documents)
Type:: Text
Format:: application/pdf
Description:: Folder of materials from the "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1956-1999" series from the AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department records
Metadata URL:: https://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/50440
Language:: eng
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries
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