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Consists of documents of the Southern Cooperative Development Program, an initiative of the Ford Foundation and human rights groups to provide training for community organizing and economic development in the rural U.S. south. Contents include a proposal for Cooperative training activities, schedules and materials from a training event in Prairie Ronde, Louisiana, and promotional materials from associated business cooperatives.

Scope and Contents Consists of correspondence and documents related to the Southern Interagency Conference, a meeting series coordinated by the Southern Regional Council (SRC) between different labor, civil rights, and community service organizations active in the U.S. south. Contents include correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with other Conference attendees, minutes of Conference meetings, and Kehrer's notes from Conference meetings. Also includes the transcript of a speech on white liberals given by Lewis M....

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Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with other members of the planning committee for the 1966 Southern Conference on Adult Basic Education, organized by the Southern Education Foundation and the Adult Education Association. Contents include planning letters, conference programs, Kehrer's notes on the planning process, and two reports on issues in adult education distributed to planning committee members.

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Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with Southern Regional Council (SRC) Executive Director George H. Esser, Jr. in preparation for the November 1974 annual SRC meeting. Topics include Kehrer's suggestions for new members of the SRC board and a funding request to the AFL-CIO for assistance in the 1975 fiscal year.

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Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with staff of the Southern Regional Council (SRC), primarily with SRC Labor Director Emory Via. Topics include planning for conferences, Kehrer's suggestions for new members of the SRC board, and efforts to direct resources of the SRC and other civil rights organizations towards economic development for poor people and African Americans in the U.S. south.

Scope and Contents Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with staff of the Southern Regional Council (SRC), primarily while Kehrer served as a member of the SRC board in 1973 and 1974. Topics include Kehrer's activities as part of the awards committee for the SRC's George S. Mitchell Award and the revision of a SRC research document on taxation in the U.S. south. Also includes minutes of SRC committee meetings, articles, and materials related to a strike by African American farmworkers at New Communities,...

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Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with staff of the Southern Regional Council (SRC) while Kehrer served as a member of the SRC board in 1975 and 1976. Topics include funding requests from the SRC to the AFL-CIO for assistance in the 1976 and 1977 fiscal years, SRC research into funding problems faced by Medicaid in Georgia, and a dispute over the choice of an archival repository for SRC records. Also includes an SRC report on strategies to fund Medicaid in Georgia.

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Consists of mixed correspondence of board members of the Southern Regional Council (SRC). Contents include planning correspondence for a conference on minority employment in the Atlanta area, a letter of George Esser to E.T. Kehrer thanking Kehrer for information a June 1974 conference on hunger, and a letter informing Kehrer of a 1974 meeting of the SRC Education Steering Committee. Also includes a roster of SRC Education Steering Committee members.

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Consists of mixed documents of the Southern Regional Council (SRC). Contents include publicity materials, notes, minutes of meetings, two drafts of a proposal for an SRC labor program to train labor union officials on racial issues, a copy of the SRC 1974 annual report, and a 1976 statement of the SRC's positions on racial and social issues.

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Consists of the Southern Regional Council (SRC) objectives for the 1970s, as adopted at the 1973 SRC annual meeting. The program calls on the SCR to expand its capacity to facilitate communication between advocacy groups and to provide expert research on issues, while continuing to support initiatives for economic development, education, healthcare, and housing in the U.S. south.