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Branches, Houston: Election Dispute

Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Title:: Branches, Houston: Election Dispute
Date of Original:: 1979-06
Subject:: Civil rights
Labor movement
Location:: United States, Texas, Harris County, Houston, 29.76328, -95.36327
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/1903.1/50550
Language:: eng
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries
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