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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. State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 271, Ferndale, MI, 79-3

Date of Original:: 1979-03/1979-06
Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

2. Michigan State, A. Philip Randolph Institute, Conference, October 1977

Date of Original:: 1977-10
Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

3. Michigan State, A. Philip Randolph Institute, A. Philip Randolph Birthday Celebration

Date of Original:: 1977-04
Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

4. Retail, Wholesale Union, Local 87, Saginaw, MI, 76-33

Date of Original:: 1976-03/1976-04
Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

5. State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 1346, Sterling Heights,MI, 76-34

Date of Original:: 1976-03/1976-04
Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

6. State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 1905, Detroit, MI, 75-42

Date of Original:: 1975-07/1981-10
Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

7. Hearings-Michigan Civil Rights Commission

Date of Original:: 1975-05
Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

8. Retail, Wholesale Union, Local 602, Flint, MI, 75-12

Date of Original:: 1975-03/1975-12
Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

9. State, County and Municipal Employees, Detroit, MI, 75-9

Date of Original:: 1975-03
Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

10. Retail, Wholesale Union, Local 40, Flint, MI, 74-26

Date of Original:: 1974-05/1974-10
Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

11. State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 7, Lansing, MI, 74-18

Date of Original:: 1974-03/1976-02
Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

12. State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 1105, Detroit, MI, 73-34

Date of Original:: 1973-08/1974-05
Collection:: Advancing Workers’ Rights in the American South
Contributing Institution:: University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries