Tennessee State Labor Council Convention panoramic photograph, October 16-18, 1961

The AFL-CIO Region 8 records, spanning 1930 to 1974, include correspondence, minutes, reports, legal papers, conference materials, membership cards, and printed materials. The collection pertains to the career of longtime labor organizer Paul R. Christopher, 1910-1974, who first joined the United Textile Workers in North Carolina in 1932 and who later worked with the CIO, 1937-1955 and the AFL-CIO, 1955-1974. The collection is arranged by type of record and organized in five series.

In addition to these series, the records also include many items such as periodicals, constitutions, contracts, pamphlets, and proceedings as well as non-print items such as photographs and artifacts. These items have been stored separately in the department's Printed Collection and Non-print Collection. Sound recordings, including a small amount of Christopher's dictation and conversations, have been digitized and are available online.