Kehrer, E. T.
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1921-
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department, Southeastern Office records
Collection
Identifier: L1985-16
Abstract:
AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department, Southeastern Office records, 1974-1984, consists of correspondence and printed materials pertaining to E.T. Kehrer's involvement with community action groups.
Dates:
1974-1984
AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department, Southeastern Office records
Collection
Identifier: L1986-01
Abstract
AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department, Southeastern Office records, 1969-1983, consist of press releases, educational materials, publications, and correspondence. Shortly after the merger in 1955, the AFL-CIO set up a Civil Rights Department, which was designed to investigate various fields of civil rights activity.
Dates:
1969-1983
AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department, Southern Office records
Collection
Identifier: L1983-26
Abstract:
The records, 1964-1979, of the Southern Office of the AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department consist primarily of correspondence and related reports, surveys, statements, and newspaper clippings. Much of the correspondence is between Director E.T. (Al) Kehrer and various AFL-CIO departments, notably his superiors Don Slaiman (1965-1974) and William Pollard (1974-1979). There is also substantial correspondence between Kehrer and the AFL-CIO state and city labor councils in the South; apprenticeship...
Dates:
1964-1979
AFL-CIO Southern Area Civil Rights Department records
Collection
Identifier: L1989-17
Abstract
The records of the AFL-CIO Southern Area Civil Rights Department, spanning 1962 to 1988, include correspondence, minutes, reports, writings, financial records, printed materials, clippings, membership cards, photographs, and artifacts that document the activities of the office's director, E.T. "Al" Kehrer, in facilitating the employment of minorities and women in the region.
Dates:
1962-1988
E. T. Kehrer papers
Collection
Identifier: L1989-22
Abstract:
E.T. (Edward Thomas) "Al" Kehrer (1921-1996) was a labor union official born near Brighton, Michigan. Kehrer served as the Southeastern Regional Director of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) (1953-1964) and Southern Director for the AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department (1965-1989). His papers, 1940-1989, include records relating to educational activities (1940-1950); professional activities files (1953-1980) containing correspondence, expense reports, and weekly calendars...
Dates:
1940-1989
Found in:
Special Collections
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E. T. Kehrer papers
E.T "Al" Kehrer oral history interview, February 10, 1995
Item
Identifier: KehrerET_L1995-12_10
Scope and Contents
Interviewed by Marcia Fishman: Al Kehrer discusses his family background, including the Americanization of German Americans after World War I as well as growing up in Detroit, Michigan. He also speaks of his interest in the labor movement and the influence of teachers such as Florence Sweeney, first president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT), and Max Jaslow, who taught night classes to the United Auto Workers (UAW). Kehrer found many opportunities for childhood employment during...
Dates:
February 10, 1995
Georgia AFL-CIO Journal of Labor photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: L2004-01A
Abstract:
Founded in Atlanta in 1898, the Journal of Labor documented the labor movement in Georgia. The Journal of Labor Photograph Collection, 1974-1992 (bulk 1980-1992), consists of photographic prints and negatives depicting labor functions, political events, pickets, strikes, conventions, social events, and campaigns. During the period covered by the collection, The Journal was the official newspaper of the Georgia State AFL-CIO, which ceased its publication in...
Dates:
1974-1992; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1992
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Southeast Regional Office records
Collection
Identifier: L1980-18
Abstract:
The collection consists of the records of the Southeastern Regional Office of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union from 1945-1980. Includes administrative records (1945-1977) containing correspondence to or from Jack Handler, Regional Counsel, Directors E.T. Kehrer, Martin J. Morand and Nick Bonanno; subject files relating to farm workers, the General Electric strike (1960), organizing activities in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and; the 1960 Presidential election; financial...
Dates:
1945-1978
Mississippi State AFL-CIO records
Collection
Identifier: L1986-26
Abstract:
The Mississippi State Federation of Labor was organized in 1918 and held its annual conventions until 1957, when it became known as the Mississippi AFL-CIO. The collection consists of the records of the Mississippi AFL-CIO and its predecessor, the Mississippi State Federation of Labor from 1947-1986. Records include President Claude Ramsay's correspondence (1959-1986); files relating to affiliated unions (1957-1983); records relating to the Congress of Industrial Organization and the AFL-CIO...
Dates:
1947-1986
Found in:
Special Collections
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Mississippi State AFL-CIO records
Southern Labor Archives biography files
Collection
Identifier: L-Biography Files
Abstract:
The Southern Labor Archives Biography Files are an artificial collection of printed material, such as clippings, programs, and flyers amalgamated by the Southern Labor Archives staff to provide information on local, state, and national labor leaders important to the various holdings in the Southern Labor Archives.
Dates:
circa 1970s-1990s
Additional filters:
- Type
- Collection 9
- Archival Object 1
- Subject
- Civil rights movements 6
- Labor unions -- Political activity 6
- Southern States 6
- Labor leaders 5
- Civil rights 3
- African Americans 2
- Atlanta (Ga.) 2
- Industrial relations 2
- Textile workers -- Labor unions 2
- Affirmative action programs 1
- African American labor union members 1
- Apprenticeship programs 1
- Arbitration, Industrial 1
- Boycotts 1
- Civil rights workers 1
- Clothing trade 1
- Collective bargaining 1
- Collective labor agreements 1
- Eastern Air Lines, inc., Strike, 1989-1991 1
- Georgia 1
- Jackson (Miss.) 1
- Labor movement -- Study and teaching 1
- Labor unions -- Organizing 1
- Labor unions and education 1
- Mississippi 1
- Municipal officials and employees -- Labor unions 1
- Police 1
- Racial discrimination 1
- Savannah (Ga.) 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- Strikes and lockouts -- Textile industry 1
- Women labor leaders 1
- Women labor union members 1
- correspondence 1
- minutes (administrative records) 1
- motion pictures (visual work) 1
- photographs 1 ∧ less
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