Box 1593

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Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Director William Pollard. Topics include the Civil Rights Department's work on equal opportunity hiring for the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway project and plans for an October 1969 conference at Millsaps College on the legacy of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Rides.

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Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Director Donald Slaiman. Topics include Kehrer's work on promoting commitments from local unions in the U.S. south to support fair employment practices.

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Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Director Donald Slaiman. Topics include efforts to promote compliance with Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act by hospitals and healthcare workers and discussion of the relationship between AFL-CIO and civil rights organizations.

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Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Director Donald Slaiman. Topics include outreach projects to increase recruitment of African Americans into apprenticeship and training programs, particularly for the textile industry.

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Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Director Donald Slaiman. Topics include outreach projects to increase recruitment of African Americans into apprenticeship and training programs, particularly for the textile industry, and internal union disputes over some members' support for George Wallace in the 1968 presidential election. Also includes a transcript of a eulogy for Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered by Benjamin Mays.

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Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Director Donald Slaiman. Topics include Kehrer's reports on the 1969 strike of African American hospital workers in Charleston, South Carolina and discussion of the celebration of A. Philip Randolph's 80th birthday. Also includes text of addresses delivered by Slaiman, Roy Wilkins, and George Meany.

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Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Director Donald Slaiman. Topics include discussion of different approaches for hiring more African Americans in the building and construction trades, particularly in the context of an effort by the Nixon administration to require federal contractors to set specific hiring goals for minorities.

Scope and Contents Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Director Donald Slaiman. Topics include Kehrer's reports on the 1971 strike of African American bakery workers in Savannah, Georgia, union organizing efforts among faculty and student workers at the University of Florida, and discussion of the AFL-CIO's participation in arbitrating compliance cases brought before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Also includes text of a 1971 address by Slaiman on the...

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Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Director Donald Slaiman. Topics include Kehrer's reports on number of civil rights and labor conferences, efforts to increase hiring of African Americans for work on MARTA projects in Atlanta, and discussion of statistics for African American employment in southern U.S. textile mills.

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Consists of primarily of monthly reports sent by E.T. Kehrer to AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Director Donald Slaiman, documenting activities of the Southern Area Civil Rights Department office. Also includes a letter from a group of African American police officers in Atlanta, requesting assistance in responding to workplace discrimination.

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Consists of correspondence between E.T. Kehrer and Donald Slaiman of the AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department and staff of the ALF-CIO the Committee on Political Education (COPE), principally National COPE Director Al Barkan, regarding support for various national and state political campaigns.