Box 1604

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Consists of correspondence and documents related to the 1963-1967 strike at Kingsport Press in Kingsport, Tennessee. Contents include correspondence and notes of E.T. Kehrer on his observations of the treatment of African American workers by both the company and strikers, correspondence regarding boycott campaigns against the purchasing of Kingsport products by public school districts, and affidavits both claiming and denying racial job discrimination at Kingsport Press.

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Consists of correspondence and documents of the Metro Atlanta Labor Union Relations Committee, an initiative of the Atlanta Labor Council intended to improve connections between labor leaders and union members following a series of wildcat strikes in the Atlanta area. Contents include correspondence describing the origins of the Committee, lists of members, and organizational charts.

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Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with Thomas H. Naylor, Duke University professor and Director of the L.Q.C. Lamar Society, an organization intended to promote political liberalism in the U.S. south. Contents include an invitation from Naylor to Kehrer to become involved with the Society, Kehrer's critique of the Society for paying insufficient attention to the working class, and Society brochures.

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Consists primarily of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer and Atlanta lawyer Marsha King regarding efforts to develop prepaid legal service programs. Topics include discussion of legal service programs to be administered by state labor bodies, the National Rural Center, and the Southern Regional Council. Also includes a copy of a proposal for a legal service program developed for unions in the Washington, D.C. area.

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Consists of a report by Atlanta lawyer Marsha King on the scope of prepaid legal services in the United States, including summaries of various existing prepaid legal service plans and a description of relevant laws and controversies.

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Consists of documents related to prepaid legal services, as well as prepaid health insurance plans and health maintenance organizations (HMOs). Contents include newspaper and magazine articles on prepaid legal service plans, brochures from legal service organizations and HMOs, and a number of reports on the growth of prepaid legal services nationwide.

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Consists of a letter from Literacy Action, Inc. President Lewis L. Pulling to E.T. Kehrer, proposing that Literacy Action partner with the North Georgia Building and Construction Trades Council and the AFL-CIO to develop a youth training project for housing rehabilitation. Includes a report on Literacy Action's 1977 Lakotah Project, which provided similar training and supplemental literacy education to students from Atlanta, Georgia and the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.

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Consists of correspondence and documents related the International Association of Machinists (IAM), particularly to the IAM Southern Basic Machinists Leadership School held at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Contents include correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with Leadership School organizers regarding Kehrer's participation in the school, presentations made to students at the Leadership School, and additional political organizing materials produced by IAM.

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Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with Georgia Governor Lester Maddox. Topics include Kehrer's criticism of Maddox for helping invite George and Lurleen Wallace to address the Georgia General Assembly and an invitation from Maddox to Kehrer to attend the September 1967 Governor's Conference on Education.

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Consists of correspondence and documents related to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. Contents include correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with King Center staff, planning materials for the 1974 and 1975 celebrations of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, and programs for those celebrations.

Scope and Contents Consists of correspondence and documents related to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. Contents include a copy of a letter from Coretta Scott King to AFL-CIO President George Meany encouraging cooperation between civil rights and labor groups and emphasizing full employment as a shared goal, as well as planning materials for the 1976 celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, which incorporated full employment as a major theme. Also includes a program...

Scope and Contents Consists of correspondence and documents related to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. Contents include planning materials for the 1976 and 1977 celebrations of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, planning materials and programs for additional 1976 King Center programs on full employment and nonviolence, and promotional materials on King Center internships. Also includes position papers and promotional materials from the National Committee on Full Employment...

Scope and Contents Consists of correspondence and documents related to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. Contents include a letter received by Coretta Scott King and forwarded to E.T. Kehrer requesting support for union organizing among minority building and construction workers in New York City, as well as additional correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with King Center staff regarding Kehrer's involvement with planning committees for King Center events. Also includes planning...

Scope and Contents Consists of documents related to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. Contents include organizational and financial records of the King Center, planning documents for September 1977 events to promote full employment, and a complete program for the 1977 celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday. Also includes promotional materials for various initiatives supported by the King Center, and a pamphlet from the communist October League organization criticizing...

Scope and Contents Consists of correspondence copied to E.T. Kehrer. Contents include a letter of U.S. Representative Bo Callaway to Atlanta attorney Al Wall indicating his support for improved workers' compensation in Georgia, a letter from Charles W. Moore to the Associated Actors and Artistes of America requesting help arranging a celebrity speaker for the 1969 banquet of the Morris Brown College Alumni Association, and a letter from U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau Director Elizabeth Duncan Koontz...

Scope and Contents Consists of mixed documents, articles, and promotional materials from various sources. Contents include minutes of meetings of AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department and various related committees, an article by Jewish Labor Committee Executive Director Emanuel Muravchik on the role of antisemitism in the 1968-1969 New York City teachers' strikes, brochures from the U.S. Civil Service Commission, Georgia labor statistics from 1975 and 1975, and a 1968 AFL-CIO report on anti-union activity in...