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Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with individuals involved in affirmative action and employment and training programs at the Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Topics include negotiations regarding affirmative action for African American workers affected by job discrimination at Ingalls Shipyard, misconduct by Shipyard owner Litton Industries, and support from local unions for the activities of Recruitment and Training Program, Inc. in the area.

Scope and Contents Consists of documents related to affirmative action and employment and training programs at the Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Includes notes, news articles, employee statistics for Ingalls Shipyard, a proposal of Litton Industries to implement affirmative action programs at the Shipyard, and a proposal from the AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department to create a Human Relations Council to help manage discrimination cases for the Pascagoula Metal Trades Council. Also includes a...

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Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with staff of the Atlanta office of ACTION, a federal domestic volunteer service agency. Topics include a request from ACTION for names of potential Peace Corps volunteers with building and construction trade experience, and Kehrer's list of suggestions.

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Consists of mailings, newsletter, and pamphlets produced by Active Voters, a nonprofit organization promoting civic engagement in Georgia. Includes resolutions from Active Voters on state constitutional reform, voting law reform, and other political issues in Georgia, and a pamphlet calling for the end of the county-unit voting system.

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Consists of documents related to a 1978 training conference on strategies for implementing affirmative action for people with disabilities in federal contracts, as required by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Includes conference schedule, E.T. Kehrer's notes on the conference, and the text of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

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Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with Robert S. Valder, Associate Director of the Alabama Council on Human Relations. Kehrer informs Valder that the Economic Development Administration is hiring integrated staff for a new office in Huntsville, Alabama, and encourages Valder to help refer African American applicants. Also includes a brochure from the Alabama Council on Human Relations.

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Consists of documents related to the use of literacy tests for voting in Alabama. Includes a political advertisement taken out by Alabama business organizations in the April 26, 1965 issue of U.S. News and World Report, expressing qualified support for literacy tests. Also includes copies of portions of an Alabama literacy test that have been filled out by AFL-CIO staff.

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Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with staff of the Alliance for Labor Action (ALA). Topics include expansion of the ALA in the Atlanta area, ALA use of advertising in labor organizing efforts, and a 1971 seminar organized by ALA on drug abuse in the workplace.

Scope and Contents Consists primarily of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with members of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Georgia and national ACLU staff. Topics include Kehrer's term as president of the ACLU of Georgia from February 1967 to November 1968, his disagreement with the national ACLU over its opposition to the Vietnam War and the 1968 New York City teachers' strikes, and his ultimate resignation from his position. Also includes bylaws of the ACLU of Georgia and the New York Civil...

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Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with staff of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Southern Regional Office and with members of the ACLU of Georgia. Topics include a 1965 ACLU study of African American employment by federal courts in the Southern U.S. and 1971 reforms of the constitution of the ACLU of Georgia. Also includes a 1969 letter from lawyer and ACLU member Hugh L. Gilbert to E.T. Kehrer, discussing Kehrer's resignation as president of the ACLU of Georgia.

Scope and Contents Consists primarily of documents related to the 1968 New York City teachers' strikes over the creation of a community-controlled, majority African-American school district in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn. Contents include a published exchange between New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) Director Aryeh Neier, who opposed the strike, and writer Maurice Goldbloom, who supported the strike and criticized NYCLU and the leaders of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school...

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Consists of promotional pamphlets of Total Community Mobilization, an anti-Vietnam War organization based at Emory University, and the National Petition Committee, a national anti-Vietnam War organization dedicated to large-scale public petitions against the war.

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Consists of correspondence and documents of the Alliance for Social, Economic, and Political Progress, a civil rights and labor activist organization established in 1965 in Atlanta, Georgia. Contents include correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with other members of the Alliance, a resolution adopted by the Alliance in support of the California Grape Strike, and materials promoting the 1966 campaign of Sam Caldwell for Georgia Labor Commissioner.

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Consists of correspondence and documents related to the 1967 efforts of the Alliance for Social, Economic, and Political Progress to oppose the creation of a new sales tax or payroll tax in Atlanta. Contents include correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with other Alliance members and labor representatives, reports from the Alliance's Tax Committee, text of local tax bills brought before the Georgia General Assembly, and articles on tax policy.

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Consists primarily of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with members of the Atlanta Charter Commission regarding the 1971-1972 revision of Atlanta, Georgia's city charter. Topics include Kehrer's requests for information on the charter revision process in other cities and requests by AFSCME representatives to meet with the Commission. Also includes Kehrer's statements to the Commission and comments on the first draft of the revised charter.