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A. Steve Nance papers

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Identifier: L1999-04
Abstract: A. Steve Nance was a key figure in Southern labor history during the 1930s. He was President of the Atlanta Federation of Trades, and worked with the Textile Workers Organizing Committee in Georgia, as well as throughout the South. Nance also worked with the fledgling alternative state labor federation in Georgia during 1937. The A. Steve Nance papers contain correspondence, speech transcripts, Georgia Federation of Labor memos, NLRB mediation files for two Atlanta hat manufacturers, and...
Dates: 1930-1956; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1938
Found in: Special Collections

AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department, Southeastern Office records

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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
Found in: Special Collections

AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department, Southeastern Office records

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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
Found in: Special Collections

AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department, Southeastern Region records

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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
Found in: Special Collections

AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department, Southern Office records

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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
Found in: Special Collections

AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education (COPE), Area 3 records

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Identifier: L1982-41
Abstract:

The AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education (COPE) Area 3 covers the region comprising Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, and West Virginia. Its records, 1970-1979, consist primarily of correspondence and printed material generated by the state labor federations in Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and South Carolina and West Virginia.

Dates: 1947-1979
Found in: Special Collections

AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education (COPE), Area 3 records

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Identifier: L1990-03
Abstract: AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education (COPE) Area 3 comprised Florida, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, and West Virginia. COPE’s main purpose was to solicit and encourage voting and voter registration, especially among women, minority, senior citizen and youth voters. The records of AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education, Area 3, 1964-1984, contain correspondence, field reports, news clippings, surveys, reports, memoranda, political fund-raising materials,...
Dates: 1962-1984
Found in: Special Collections

AFL-CIO Region 5 (Atlanta office) records

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Identifier: L1985-15
Abstract:

AFL-CIO Region 5 (known as Region 6 until 1973) encompassed Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. The records consists of correspondence, newsletters, memos and reports, covering AFL-CIO's stand on political issues and candidates for office, lobbying, political campaigns, internal problems, and general business.

Dates: 1976-1978
Found in: Special Collections

AFL-CIO Region 5 (Atlanta office) records

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Identifier: L1982-38
Abstract: The collection consists of records of the AFL-CIO Region 5 (Atlanta, Ga.) and its predecessor, AFL-CIO Region 6 from 1947-1981. Includes correspondence, newsletters, memoranda, proceedings, reports, and printed materials. Materials document the activities of state and local union organizations, labor councils, the AFL, the CIO, and AFL-CIO departments pertaining to political issues, candidates for office, political campaigns, lobbying, the Don Luna case and trial, the J.P. Stevens...
Dates: 1947-1981
Found in: Special Collections

AFL-CIO Region 5 (Atlanta office) records

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Identifier: L1996-03
Abstract

Region 5 of the AFL-CIO includes the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The AFL-CIO Region 5 (Atlanta office) records (1964-1993) consists of correspondence, subject files, department and committee materials, newsletters, and financial documents.

Dates: 1964-1993
Found in: Special Collections

AFL-CIO Region 5 records

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Identifier: L1998-05
Dates: 1994
Found in: Special Collections

AFL-CIO Region 6 (Atlanta office) records

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Identifier: L1974-01
Abstract:

The collection consists of correspondence, office memoranda and printed material maintained by the regional director’s office in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1961-1969
Found in: Special Collections

AFL-CIO Region 8 (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Region 5 records

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Identifier: L1985-38
Abstract: In 1955 when the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) merged, it created AFL-CIO Region 8 encompassing Tennessee and Kentucky with Paul Christopher as Director. North and South Carolina became part of Region 5 directed by Carey Haigler. The 1964 reorganization of the AFL-CIO placed Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina in Region 8 with Christopher as Director and Haigler as Assistant Director. After Christopher's death in 1974, Region...
Dates: 1940-1974; Majority of material found within 1956 - 1974
Found in: Special Collections

AFL-CIO Region 8 records

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Identifier: L1974-15
Abstract: AFL-CIO Region 8 records are organized into five series: (I) United Textile Workers of America, 1934-1937; (II) Textile Workers Organizing Committee (TWOC)/Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA), 1937-1940; (III) Tennessee State Industrial Union Council (TSIUC-CIO), 1940-1953; (IV) Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), Region 4 (Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, and South Carolina), 1953-1955; and (V) AFL-CIO Region 8, 1955-1969. The periods of Paul R. Christopher's career as a...
Dates: 1933-1969
Found in: Special Collections

AFL-CIO Southern Area Civil Rights Department records

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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
Found in: Special Collections

Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union, Southern Region records

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Identifier: L1991-02
Abstract:

Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union, Southern Region records consist of contracts, expenses, and company files. ACTWU represented textile workers throughout the United States and Canada until 1995 when ACTWU merged with ILGWU to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE).

Dates: 1949-1990
Found in: Special Collections

Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union-Southern Regional Joint Board (Knoxville, Tenn.) records

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Identifier: L1997-09
Scope and Contents of the Records

Sixty-two (62) boxes, circa 1950-circa 1990: Employer correspondence; Joint Board office files; minutes, newsclippings; NLRB case material; expired contracts; constitutions and bylaws; organizing campaigns. Note:· Earliest material is from Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA), a predecessor union.

Dates: circa 1950-1990
Found in: Special Collections

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Georgia-Tennessee-Alabama Joint Board records

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Identifier: L1996-16
Abstract:

The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union Georgia-Tennessee-Alabama Joint Board collection contains grievance files, arbitration files, newspaper clippings, publications, meeting minutes, training manuals, contracts, negotiations, union-management meeting transcripts, and correspondence from 1963-1993.

Dates: 1963-1993
Found in: Special Collections

Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Southern Region records

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Identifier: L1977-03
Abstract:

Southern Region, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America records are made up of office files, including correspondence; files documenting the activities of some local unions; and court hearings related to two cases.

Dates: 1939-1980
Found in: Special Collections

American Federation of Teachers, Southern Organizing Project records

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Identifier: L1979-22
Abstract:

The records of the American Federation of Teachers, Southern Organizing Project, 1978-1979, consist primarily of printed promotional materials.

Dates: 1978-1979
Found in: Special Collections

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Labor leaders 23
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Atlanta (Ga.) 16
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Kingsport Press Strike, Kingsport, Tenn., 1963- 1
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AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department 6
Kehrer, E. T. 6
J.P. Stevens & Co. 5
United Textile Workers of America 5
AFL-CIO. Region 5 4
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Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union 4
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union 4
Textile Workers Union of America 4
United States. National Labor Relations Board 4
A. Philip Randolph Institute 3
AFL-CIO. Region 6 3
Communications Workers of America. District 3 3
General Electric Company 3
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Southeast Region 3
International Woodworkers of America 3
United Steelworkers of America. District 35 3
AFL-CIO 2
AFL-CIO. Alabama Labor Council 2
AFL-CIO. Committee on Political Education. Area 3 2
AFL-CIO. Executive Council 2
AFL-CIO. Region 8 (Knoxville, Tenn.) 2
AFL-CIO. Tennessee State Labor Council 2
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Southern Region 2
Atlantic Steel Company 2
Bonanno, Nicholas S. 2
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) 2
Dowler, Clement 2
Helfand, Judith 2
Ku Klux Klan (1915-) 2
McDonald, David J. (David John), 1902-1979 2
McGill, Eula, 1911-2003 2
Meany, George, 1894-1980 2
National Council of Senior Citizens 2
National Urban League 2
Sala, James 2
Singleton, Oliver W., 1908-1989 2
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company 2
Southern Railway (U.S.) 2
Stoney, George C. 2
AFL-CIO. Atlanta Labor Council 1
AFL-CIO. Committee on Political Education 1
AFL-CIO. Committee on Political Education. Women's Activities Dept. 1
AFL-CIO. Railway Employes' Department 1
Abel, I. W. (Iorwith Wilbur), 1908-1987 1
Abercrombie, E. L. 1
Acree, D. S. (Dorsey S.) 1
Adair, Thomas S. 1
Alabama State Industrial Union Council 1
Allied Kingsport Press Unions 1
Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union. Southern Regional Joint Board (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America 1
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. Georgia-Tennessee-Alabama Joint Board 1
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. Southern Region 1
American Federation of Labor 1
American Federation of Labor. Southern Region 1
American Federation of Teachers 1
Archer, Thomas D. 1
Atlanta Federation of Trades 1
Atlanta Housing Authority 1
Atlanta Newspapers (Firm : Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company 1
Bader, Jesse M. (Jesse Moren) 1
Baldanzi, George 1
Barber, Harry T. 1
Barkan, Alexander E. 1
Brewton Fashions 1
Broom, E. M. (Edgar McDonald) 1
Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers of America. District Council 38 1
Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers of America. Local 193 (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Brotherhood of Railway, Airline, and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express, and Station Employes 1
Brotherhood of Railway, Airline, and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express, and Station Employes. Southern Railroad System Board of Adjustment 1
Building Service Employees' International Union 1
Central of Georgia Railway 1
Chattanooga Central Labor Union 1
Christopher, Paul R. 1
Clement, Frank Goad 1
Clitheroe, William E. 1
Communications Workers of America 1
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.). Community Relations Department 1
Cook, Clair Marvin 1
Cox, Val 1
Dean, Everett 1
Democratic National Convention (1952 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Derrick, Earl 1
Disney World Service Trade Council 1
Dixie Manufacturing Company 1
Dodge, David Witherspoon 1
Farah Manufacturing Company 1
Fritschle, C. E. 1
Georgia State AFL-CIO 1
Georgia. Department of Labor 1
Googe, George Logan 1
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company 1
Guthrie, Woody 1
Haberthear, Harry 1
Haigler, Carey 1
Haley, Benjamin Franklin 1
Hall, Cameron P. 1
Halstead, Freddie Elmer 1
Handler, Jack G. 1
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