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AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department, Southeastern Office records

 Collection
Identifier: L1986-01
Abstract

AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department, Southeastern Office records, 1969-1983, consist of press releases, educational materials, publications, and correspondence. Shortly after the merger in 1955, the AFL-CIO set up a Civil Rights Department, which was designed to investigate various fields of civil rights activity.

Dates: 1969-1983

AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department, Southeastern Office records

 Collection
Identifier: L1985-16
Abstract:

AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department, Southeastern Office records, 1974-1984, consists of correspondence and printed materials pertaining to E.T. Kehrer's involvement with community action groups.

Dates: 1974-1984

AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department, Southeastern Region records

 Collection
Identifier: L1988-22
Abstract:

AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department, Southeastern Region records consist of newsletters, correspondence, training manuals, news articles, newsletters and summaries of events, 1966-1986.

Dates: 1966-1986

AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department, Southern Office records

 Collection
Identifier: L1983-26
Abstract: The records, 1964-1979, of the Southern Office of the AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department consist primarily of correspondence and related reports, surveys, statements, and newspaper clippings. Much of the correspondence is between Director E.T. (Al) Kehrer and various AFL-CIO departments, notably his superiors Don Slaiman (1965-1974) and William Pollard (1974-1979). There is also substantial correspondence between Kehrer and the AFL-CIO state and city labor councils in the South; apprenticeship...
Dates: 1964-1979

AFL-CIO Southern Area Civil Rights Department records

 Collection
Identifier: L1989-17
Abstract

The records of the AFL-CIO Southern Area Civil Rights Department, spanning 1962 to 1988, include correspondence, minutes, reports, writings, financial records, printed materials, clippings, membership cards, photographs, and artifacts that document the activities of the office's director, E.T. "Al" Kehrer, in facilitating the employment of minorities and women in the region.

Dates: 1962-1988

Barney Weeks collection

 Collection
Identifier: L1984-17
Abstract:

The Barney Weeks Collection, 1957-1983, consists of materials relating to his work with the Alabama Labor Council as president and the work of A. G. Trammell, Secretary-Treasurer of the Council.

Dates: 1957-1983

E. T. Kehrer papers

 Collection
Identifier: L1989-22
Abstract: E.T. (Edward Thomas) "Al" Kehrer (1921-1996) was a labor union official born near Brighton, Michigan. Kehrer served as the Southeastern Regional Director of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) (1953-1964) and Southern Director for the AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department (1965-1989). His papers, 1940-1989, include records relating to educational activities (1940-1950); professional activities files (1953-1980) containing correspondence, expense reports, and weekly calendars...
Dates: 1940-1989

Georgia AFL-CIO Journal of Labor photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: L2004-01A
Abstract: Founded in Atlanta in 1898, the Journal of Labor documented the labor movement in Georgia. The Journal of Labor Photograph Collection, 1974-1992 (bulk 1980-1992), consists of photographic prints and negatives depicting labor functions, political events, pickets, strikes, conventions, social events, and campaigns. During the period covered by the collection, The Journal was the official newspaper of the Georgia State AFL-CIO, which ceased its publication in...
Dates: 1974-1992; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1992

Georgia Association of Educators records

 Collection
Identifier: L2015-34
Abstract: The Georgia Association of Educators is a component member of the National Education Association which acts as a professional organization for educators in the state of Georgia. The GAE provides legal services, professional support and learning, and political lobbying to its members in Georgia. The Georgia Association of Educators records (1921-2015) consist of convention materials, meeting minutes, membership materials, newspaper clippings, audio-visual materials, photographs, periodicals,...
Dates: 1832, 1883-1901, 1921-2015; Majority of material found within 1961 - 2015

Highlander Center collection

 Collection
Identifier: L2021-08
Abstract

The Highlander Center Collection, 1942-2003, consists of labor pamphlets, curriculum material, periodicals and publications. The Highlander Research and Education Center, formerly known as the Highlander Folk School, is a social justice leadership training school and cultural center in New Market, Tennessee.

Dates: 1942-2003

International Molders and Allied Workers Union of North America, Local 324 (Anniston, Ala.) records

 Collection
Identifier: L1973-16
Abstract:

The guide to this collection has been created from one of the Southern Labor Archives' legacy finding aids, which has not been updated since the time of processing.

Dates: 1950-1967

Mississippi State AFL-CIO records

 Collection
Identifier: L1986-26
Abstract: The Mississippi State Federation of Labor was organized in 1918 and held its annual conventions until 1957, when it became known as the Mississippi AFL-CIO. The collection consists of the records of the Mississippi AFL-CIO and its predecessor, the Mississippi State Federation of Labor from 1947-1986. Records include President Claude Ramsay's correspondence (1959-1986); files relating to affiliated unions (1957-1983); records relating to the Congress of Industrial Organization and the AFL-CIO...
Dates: 1947-1986

North Carolina State AFL-CIO records

 Collection
Identifier: L1981-20
Abstract:

The North Carolina State Federation of Labor was organized in 1907 and held annual conventions until 1957. The North Carolina State AFL-CIO was then organized in 1958. The collection consists of administrative files, 1945, 1949-1981, and also includes material regarding the North Carolina gubernatorial campaign of Wilbur Hobby, president of the North Carolina State AFL-CIO.

Dates: 1945-1981

Stetson Kennedy papers

 Collection
Identifier: L1979-37
Abstract: Kennedy's career as an author began in the 1930s when he worked as both a writer and an editor on the Federal Writers Project guide to Florida. The Papers, 1933-1981, of Stetson Kennedy comprise correspondence; subject files on various organizations, individuals, and ideas; typescripts of articles written by Kennedy; newsclippings; press releases; bulletins and fliers; pamphlets; periodicals; and photographs. Anyone interested in primary source material on the pioneering struggles to...
Dates: 1933-1981

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AFL-CIO. Committee on Political Education 2
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 2
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AFL-CIO. Public Employee Department 1
AFSCME 1
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union 1
American Federation of Teachers 1
Barbee, William M. 1
Biemiller, Andrew J. (Andrew John), 1906-1982 1
Bonanno, Nicholas S. 1
Britt, E. A. 1
Carolina Skills Advancement Center 1
Colmer, William Meyers, 1890-1980 1
Democratic Party (Miss.) 1
Eastern Air Lines 1
Evers, Charles, 1922- 1
Gartin, Carroll, 1913-1966 1
Georgia Association of Educators 1
Georgia Education Association 1
Georgia State AFL-CIO 1
Georgia Teachers and Education Association 1
Georgia. Department of Labor 1
Griffin, Charles H. (Charles Hudson), 1926- 1
Guthrie, Woody 1
Haywood, Allan S., 1888-1953 1
Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1
Hobby, Wilbur 1
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers 1
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 1
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union 1
International Molders and Allied Workers Union 1
International Molders and Allied Workers Union. Local 324 (Anniston, Ala.) 1
International Molders and Allied Workers Union. Local 414 (Anniston, Ala.) 1
Jackson Police Officers Association (Jackson, Miss.) 1
Jackson, Jesse 1
Jacobs, Joseph, 1908- 1
Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985 1
Jones, Ben 1
Kennedy, Stetson 1
Knight, Thomas, 1919- 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915-) 1
Lewis, John, 1940-2020 1
Loyal Democrats of Mississippi 1
M & H Valve and Fittings Company 1
Mabry, Herbert H., 1929-2011 1
Meany, George, 1894-1980 1
Miller, Zell, 1932-2018 1
Mississippi AFL-CIO 1
Mississippi Advisory Committee for the Statewide Planning for Vocational Education 1
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party 1
Mississippi State Federation of Labor 1
Muskie, Edmund S., 1914-1996 1
North Carolina State AFL-CIO 1
Pollard, William Edward, 1915- 1
Powell, Daniel A., 1911- 1
Ramsay, Claude E., 1916-1986 1
Ray, Richard, 1941- 1
Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970 1
Riffe, John, 1904-1958 1
Schnitzler, F. William (Frank William), 1904- 1
Scott, Christopher 1
Slaiman, Donald, 1919-2000 1
Smith, Frank E. (Frank Ellis), 1918-1997 1
Smith, Stanton E. (Stanton Everett), 1905- 1
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company 1
State Advisory Committee for the Mississippi Employment Security Commission 1
True, Martha, 1924-2008 1
United States Commission on Civil Rights 1
United States. Committee on Fair Employment Practice 1
United States. National Labor Relations Board 1
United States. Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 1
United States. Office of Economic Opportunity 1
United States. Southeastern Regional Manpower Advisory Committee 1
Waller, Bill, 1926-2011 1
Weeks, Barney H. 1
Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981 1
Williams, John Bell, 1918-1983 1
Winter, William F. 1
Wright, Fielding (Fielding Lewis), 1895-1956 1
Young, Andrew, 1932- 1
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