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Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South

Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, audiovisual recordings, and more documenting AFL-CIO work between 1943 and 1999.

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Date of Original
1943/1999

Subject
Civil rights
Labor unions
Labor movement
Labor union locals
Labor law and legislation
Discrimination
Labor
Labor laws and legislation

Location
United States, 39.76, -98.5

Medium
records
pamphlets
newspaper clippings

Type
Text

Description
A collaboration between Georgia State University (GSU) and the University of Maryland (UMD), “Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South: Digitizing the Records of the AFL-CIO’s Civil Rights Division” makes accessible a robust array of records from the collections of GSU and UMD, records providing insight into the intersection of civil rights and labor movements nationally and in the South. The records include correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, audiovisual recordings, and more documenting AFL-CIO work between 1943 and 1999. Explore the links below to discover Advancing Workers Rights in the American South materials across UMD and GSU’s digital repositories.

Metadata URL
https://digital.lib.umd.edu/awr

Language
eng

Contributing Institution
University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

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1. National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (Washington, D.C.)

Date of Original:: 2000-05-18
Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

2. Annual Convention, 90th

Date of Original:: 1999
Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

3. Correspondence and General National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1999

Date of Original:: 1999
Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

4. Board of Directors: Meeting, July 1998

Date of Original:: 1998-07
Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

5. Banquet, Virginia State National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Williamsburg, VA)

Date of Original:: 1997-10-24
Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

6. Board of Directors: Meeting, October 1997

Date of Original:: 1997-10
Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

7. Board of Directors: Meeting, July 1997

Date of Original:: 1997-07
Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

8. Board of Directors: Meeting, May 1997

Date of Original:: 1997-05
Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

9. Annual Convention, 88th

Date of Original:: 1997
Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

10. Correspondence and General National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1997

Date of Original:: 1997
Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

11. Board of Directors: Meeting, October 1996

Date of Original:: 1996-10
Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

12. Ad Hoc Labor Committee Meeting, April 1996

Date of Original:: 1996-04
Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

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