Box 1592

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Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Director William Pollard. Topics include apprenticeship programs for women, a statement delivered by Pollard on the need for better enforcement of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and information on Kehrer's anti-hunger activism.

Scope and Contents Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Director William Pollard. Topics include arrangements for Pollard to address the Butler Street YMCA Hungry Club Forum on the topic of organized labor and civil rights, Kehrer's reports on his conference activities, and administrative and financial issues around AFL-CIO relationships with different civil rights organizations. Also includes a New Times magazine article by Robert Sam Anson on African American...

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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 for MARTA construction in Atlanta, union voter mobilization efforts prior to the 1976 presidential election, and the development of the AFL-CIO's full employment policy platform.

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Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Director William Pollard. Topics include reports on Kehrer's activities in Alabama and Mississippi, plans for the 1977 and 1978 celebrations of the birthday Martin Luther King, Jr., organized by the King Center, and the 1977 strike of sanitation workers in Atlanta.

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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 reports on strike and boycott efforts against J.P. Stevens textile corporation.