Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
AFL-CIO Region 5 (Atlanta office) records
Collection
Identifier: L1982-38
Abstract:
The collection consists of records of the AFL-CIO Region 5 (Atlanta, Ga.) and its predecessor, AFL-CIO Region 6 from 1947-1981. Includes correspondence, newsletters, memoranda, proceedings, reports, and printed materials. Materials document the activities of state and local union organizations, labor councils, the AFL, the CIO, and AFL-CIO departments pertaining to political issues, candidates for office, political campaigns, lobbying, the Don Luna case and trial, the J.P. Stevens...
Dates:
1947-1981
Found in:
Special Collections
John G. Ramsay papers
Collection
Identifier: L1980-05
Abstract:
John Gates Ramsay, born 1902, was a steelworker early in his career, serving as a vice-president and president of local unions. He joined the new Steel Workers Organizing Committee of the CIO in 1936. From 1940 he was a member of the organizing staff of the USWA, serving in their Southern organizing drive in 1946-1953. He then worked in the national CIO office in Washington. Ramsay's unique emphasis was to develop contacts with religious leaders and groups that might be useful in the labor...
Dates:
1928-1979
Found in:
Special Collections
Filtered By
- Subject: Southern States X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Alabama 1
- Atlanta (Ga.) 1
- Boycotts 1
- Church work with the working class 1
- Florida 1
- Georgia 1
- Iron and steel workers 1
- Iron and steel workers -- Labor unions 1
- Labor -- Religious aspects -- Christianity 1
- Labor unions 1
- Labor unions -- Organizing 1
- Labor unions -- Political activity 1
- Mississippi 1
- North Carolina 1
- South Carolina 1
- Tennessee 1
- motion pictures (visual work) 1
- sound recordings 1 + ∧ less
∨ more