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Box 1605

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Contains 20 Results:

Mississippi Woodcutters, 1971 - 1972

 File — Box: 1605, Folder: 177
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents Consists of correspondence and documents related to the 1972 strike of woodcutters in Mississippi, led by the Gulf Coast Pulpwood Association. Contents include a letter of Mississippi AFL-CIO President Claude Ramsay to William L. Kircher, Director of the AFL-CIO Department of Organization, complaining about strikers' antagonistic relationship to the AFL-CIO. Also includes materials from the NAACP and Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) in support of the strikers, and newspaper...
Dates: 1971 - 1972

Model cities, 1969 - 1971

 File — Box: 1605, Folder: 178
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents

Consists of correspondence and documents related to the Atlanta Model Cities Program. Includes correspondence of North Georgia Building and Construction Trades Council (NGBCTC) representative George B. Caudelle with Model Cities Program Director Johnny C. Johnson regarding NGBCTC involvement with Model Cities initiatives, as well as related meeting minutes. Also includes a 1970 progress report on the first year of the Model Cities Program.

Dates: 1969 - 1971

National Association of Human Rights Workers, 1976

 File — Box: 1605, Folder: 179
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents

Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with staff of the National Association of Human Rights Workers (NAHRW), regarding the national NAHRW conference held October 1976 in Atlanta. Topics include planning for a panel on workers' rights to be led by Kehrer and featuring William Pollard, Cynthia McCaughan, Normal Hill, and Bruce Raynor. Also includes programs for the conference and materials from other conference sessions.

Dates: 1976

National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice, 1966 - 1969

 File — Box: 1605, Folder: 180
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents

Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with James J. McGuire and John P. Sisson of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice (NCCIJ). Topics include plans to coordinate opposition to a 1966 sales tax increase in Louisiana and plans for the activity of the NCCIJ's Project Equality initiative. Also includes a 1969 Commonweal magazine article on Walter Reuther, forwarded to Kehrer by Sisson.

Dates: 1966 - 1969

National Center for Research and Information of Equal Educational Opportunity, 1970 - 1971

 File — Box: 1605, Folder: 181
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents

Consists of four newsletters of the National Center for Research and Information of Equal Educational Opportunity (NCRIEEO) containing book reviews and articles on school integration and educational equality, including a bibliography on the training of student teachers for integrated schools and an article on the value of African American newspapers as educational tools.

Dates: 1970 - 1971

National Council of Christians and Jews, 1965, 1971, 1974

 File — Box: 1605, Folder: 182
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents

Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with staff of the National Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ). Topics include planning for a 1965 dialogue series on labor-management relations and the public interest.

Dates: 1965, 1971, 1974

National Institute of Labor Education, 1964 - 1965

 File — Box: 1605, Folder: 183
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents

Consists of correspondence and documents of the National Institute of Labor Education (NILE). Contents include 1965 correspondence between NILE Director Joseph Mire, Southern Regional Council Director Leslie Dunbar, and E.T. Kehrer regarding the planning and funding of a program of training workshops for union members on human relations and social issues, proposal documents for that program, and a report by Mire on one of the workshops held at the University of Georgia in 1966.

Dates: 1964 - 1965

Newsclippings, 1965 - 1966

 File — Box: 1605, Folder: 184
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents

Consists of newspaper articles primarily related to 1966 gubernatorial elections in southern U.S. states. Topics include the attempt of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to organize a boycott of the 1966 Alabama Democratic Party primary, Alabama gubernatorial candidate Richmond Flowers' efforts to gain support from African American voters, and the 1966 Georgia gubernatorial election between Lester Maddox and Bo Callaway.

Dates: 1965 - 1966

North Carolina wage survey, 1975

 File — Box: 1605, Folder: 185
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents

Consists of a 1975 report by researchers in the Department of City and Regional Planning of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the wage gap between workers in North Carolina and workers in the U.S. nationally.

Dates: 1975

Novik, M. S., 1965 - 1967

 File — Box: 1605, Folder: 186
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents

Consists primarily of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with broadcaster and AFL-CIO Communications Consultant Morris S. Novik. Topics include 1965-1967 efforts by Kehrer and Novik to encourage Georgia public radio stations to carry programming by AFL-CIO-sponsored journalist Edward P. Morgan under the equal time rule.

Dates: 1965 - 1967

Pollution and environment, 1970 - 1971

 File — Box: 1605, Folder: 187
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents

Consists primarily of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with Georgia state officials regarding issues related to pollution and natural resources. Topics include thanks sent by Kehrer to Governor Jimmy Carter for imposing a moratorium on development near a section of the Chattahoochee River, as well as a statement from Fulton County Commissioner Goodwyn Cates explaining his position on the development issue.

Dates: 1970 - 1971

Poor Peoples Corporation, 1966

 File — Box: 1605, Folder: 188
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with Ellen Maslow, New York Coordinator for the Poor People's Corporation, a project of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) dedicated to helping establish and promote African American business cooperatives. Maslow wrote Kehrer requesting AFL-CIO assistance for the Corporation, and Kehrer directed her to AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department director Don Slaiman. Also includes Poor People's Corporation publicity materials and a catalog of...
Dates: 1966

Poverty, 1965 - 1966

 File — Box: 1605, Folder: 189
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents Consists of documents related to anti-poverty organizations and initiatives. Contents include a 1965 statement of AFL-CIO President George Meany on additions to the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act, informational materials from the Office of Equal Opportunity explaining the Community Action Program, a report from the Georgia Council on Human Relations on the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)'s Operation Breadbasket, and informational materials on the Volunteers in Service to...
Dates: 1965 - 1966

Presbyterian Church [Board of Christian Education], 1967 - 1968

 File — Box: 1605, Folder: 190
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with staff of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS)'s Board of Education regarding the Board's use of materials printed by Kingsport Press while workers at that company were on strike. Includes inquires made by Kehrer as to the Board's sourcing of materials, a complaint made by Kehrer to the board over the response of one representative to his inquiries, and plans for Kehrer to address the board and petition them to cease doing business...
Dates: 1967 - 1968

Right to Work laws, 1965 - 1966

 File — Box: 1605, Folder: 191
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents

Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with Georgia legislators encouraging them to support repeal of section 14B of the Taft-Hartley Act, which allows for the creation of state right-to-work laws. Also includes newspaper articles on the 1965-1966 effort to repeal section 14B and publicity materials supporting the repeal.

Dates: 1965 - 1966

Sanders, Carl E. [Governor], 1965 - 1966

 File — Box: 1605, Folder: 192
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents

Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with Georgia Governor Carl Sanders. Contents include a letter from Kehrer encouraging Sanders to have the Georgia Tech-based radio station WGSU carry programming by the AFL-CIO-sponsored Edward P. Morgan under the equal time rule, as well as an invitation from Sanders for Kehrer to attend the 1966 Georgia Governor's Conference on Education.

Dates: 1965 - 1966

Schools, 1960, 1964, 1965, 1966

 File — Box: 1605, Folder: 193
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents

Consists of documents related to educational policy and school integration. Contents include a 1960 address by H. McKinley Conway, Jr. arguing against closing DeKalb County public schools to avoid integration, the text of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and a 1966 report from the Ford Foundation's Educational Facilities Laboratories on school design for urban areas.

Dates: 1960, 1964, 1965, 1966

Selma Inter-Religious Project, 1966

 File — Box: 1605, Folder: 194
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents

Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with Selman Inter-religious Project (SIP) Director Francis X. Walker, regarding a campaign organized by the SIP to force timber company Macmillan Bloedel and Powell River to commit to fair employment practices in its Alabama operations. Also includes a March 1966 SIP newsletter.

Dates: 1966

Sharecroppers, 1965 - 1967

 File — Box: 1605, Folder: 195
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents

Consists of correspondence and documents of E.T. Kehrer related to assistance programs for sharecroppers in the U.S. south. Contents include letters from representatives of the National Sharecroppers Fund requesting input from Kehrer on the Fund's rural training projects, a proposal from the Southern Consumers' Cooperative for the establishment of an educational foundation, and a Southern Consumers' Cooperative brochure.

Dates: 1965 - 1967

Soul City, 1969 - 1970

 File — Box: 1605, Folder: 196
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents

Consists of newspaper articles and documents related to Soul City, North Carolina, an African American-majority community planned by former Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Director Floyd B. McKissick and incorporated in 1969. Contents includes the articles of incorporation of the Soul City Foundation and a Soul City promotional brochure.

Dates: 1969 - 1970