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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

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

 Collection
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

John G. Ramsay papers

 Collection
Identifier: L1980-05
Abstract: John Gates Ramsay, born 1902, was a steelworker early in his career, serving as a vice-president and president of local unions. He joined the new Steel Workers Organizing Committee of the CIO in 1936. From 1940 he was a member of the organizing staff of the USWA, serving in their Southern organizing drive in 1946-1953. He then worked in the national CIO office in Washington. Ramsay's unique emphasis was to develop contacts with religious leaders and groups that might be useful in the labor...
Dates: 1928-1979

James F. Barrett papers

 Collection
Identifier: L1997-05
Abstract:

James Festus Barrett (1882-1959) was a union activist for the American Federation of Labor. His papers, 1920, 1937-1959, consist of files related to AFL national officers, state federations, activity reports, organizing campaigns, and subject and name files.

Dates: 1920, 1937-1959

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Memphis-Jackson Joint Board records

 Collection
Identifier: L1992-11
Abstract:

The Memphis-Jackson Joint Board began as an administrative support unit for the smaller locals within its Southern region. The records contain correspondence, grievances, financial records and audits, organizing materials, periodicals, newsletters, leaflets, photographs, membership lists, convention materials, constitutions, and bylaws.

Dates: 1946-1991; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1987

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

 Collection
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

M. H. Ross papers

 Collection
Identifier: L2001-05
Abstract: Myron Howard "Mike" Ross, was born November 9, 1919. Ross worked with a number of unions as an organizer, arbitrator, and advocate in the South. He ran for elective office in North Carolina on the Progressive Party ticket. After receiving public health training, he founded the Fairmont (West Virginia) Clinic, which had the mission of providing high quality medical care for miners and their families. Administering the clinic 1958-1978, Ross developed a longstanding interest in coal miners and...
Dates: 1916-1987

AFL-CIO Region 8 records

 Collection
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

AFL-CIO Region 8 records

 Collection
Identifier: L1984-70
Abstract:

AFL-CIO Region 8 records, 1930-1974, include correspondence, minutes, reports, legal papers, conference materials, membership cards, and printed materials. The collection pertains to the career of long time labor organizer and Region 8 Director, Paul R. Christopher (1910-1974).

Dates: 1930-1974

Operation Dixie, 1943-1947, undated

 File — Box 1514: Series II, Folder: 42
Identifier: II
General note From the Series:

Note: See Series IX: Pamphlets for additional material on some of the subject files listed below.

Dates: 1943-1947, undated

[CIO - Operation Dixie], 1940s

 File — Box 26: Series III, Folder: 9
Identifier: III
Scope and Content of the Series From the Series: Mike H. Ross, after being injured during World War II, came back to the United States, where he was stationed in several army bases to convalesce. These included Fort Dix, New Jersey and Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. Ross also spent some time in New Orleans, Louisiana after the war, and was in North Carolina during the late 1940s and early 1950s. During this time, Ross began doing research for a history on the populist movement in the south. Much of his research consisted of news clippings,...
Dates: 1940s

Operation Dixie [L1987-38], 1987

 File — Box 2579: Series I; Series II; Series VII; Series VIII, Folder: 2
Identifier: II
General note From the Series:

Note: See Series IX: Pamphlets for additional material on some of the subject files listed below.

Dates: 1987

Southern CIO drive (Operation Dixie), Macon, Georgia - labor, organization, 1946

 File — Box 6: Series II, Folder: 11
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series From the Series: During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates: 1946

[CIO drive in South (Operation Dixie) - some relates to Ross oral histories], 1940s, undated

 File — Box 108: Series II; Series III, Folder: 5
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series From the Series: During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates: 1940s, undated

"The CIO Operation Dixie, and the Evolution of Church / Labor Relations in the South" by Brian S. Adams

 File — Box 27: Series II, Folder: 7
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series From the Series: The labor files include files from Jacobs's law firm that cover pensions, as well as a few trial cases for local unions such as the iron workers and asbestos workers. Other topics included in this series are the Southern Labor Archives, United Textile Workers, Uprising of '34, the AFL-CIO Labor Lawyers conferences, and conference proceedings of the United Hatters, Cap, and Millinery Workers International Union. Included in the Labor Files are photocopied news articles from Jacobs's...
Dates: 1930-1997

Oversize material relating to Ross' organizing experience and research, including the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers, the Textile Workers Union of America, Operation Dixie and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the National Farmer's Union, the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers (including broadsides and material about Phelps-Dodge), the United Furniture Workers of America (particularly in Thomasville, North Carolina), and the United Mine Workers of America, 1940s-1950s

 File — Box 106B: Series I; Series II; Series III; Series IV; Series VI
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series From the Series: During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates: 1940s-1950s

Organizing and Arbitration, 1930-1955

 Series
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates: 1930-1955

Publications, 1939-1959

 Series
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series

The publications consist of booklets and pamphlets relating to the Textile Workers Union, Operation Dixie and other union literature.

Dates: 1939-1959

Subject Files, 1940, 1946-1974

 Series
Identifier: VII
Scope and Content of the Series Series VII:Subject Files, 1940, 1946-1974, contains correspondence and other materials which did not fall within the other series. Of particular interest is material regarding the 1959 assault against Robert Beame, an American Federation of Hosiery Workers representative who was organizing the Franklin [North Carolina] Hosiery Mill (a subsidiary of Burlington Mills, and four folders relating to the CIO Organizing Committee (Operation Dixie), 1946-1954, including correspondence from George...
Dates: 1940, 1946-1974

Myles Horton oral history interview, December 5, 1989

 Item — Othertype Oral History: Series Series A: ; Series Series B:; Series Series C: ; Series Series D: ; Series Series E: ; Series Series F: ; Series Series G: ; Series Series H: ; Series Series I: ; Series Series J: ; Series Series K: ; Series I; Series II; Series III; Series IV
Identifier: Horton, M_19891205_(P1990-03)
Scope and Contents

Interviewed by Peggy Bulger. Among topics discussed: Southern Conference For Human Welfare; CIO organizing; black and white student interaction; Southern Exposure; Operation Dixie and Highlander Folk Center; Frank Graham; Palmetto Country; Zora Neale Hurston; Zilphia Horton; role of folk music; legal attacks on Highlander; Woody Guthrie; Pete Seeger; Kennedy's problems with U.S. immigration officials; use of popular language; personal assessment of Kennedy; Alan Lomax.

Dates: December 5, 1989

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Textile Workers Union of America 2
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Abel, I. W. (Iorwith Wilbur), 1908-1987 1
Alton Box Board Company 1
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union 1
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. Georgia-Tennessee-Alabama Joint Board 1
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. Memphis-Jackson Joint Board 1
American Federation of Labor 1
Bader, Jesse M. (Jesse Moren) 1
Barrett, James F. 1
Bemis Company 1
Christopher, Paul R. 1
Columbian Rope Company 1
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.). Community Relations Department 1
Cook, Clair Marvin 1
Dodge, David Witherspoon 1
General Electric Company 1
Guthrie, Woody 1
Haigler, Carey 1
Hall, Cameron P. 1
Hollander Home Fashions 1
Horton, Myles 1
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers 1
Kirkland, Lane 1
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969 1
Liphaus, Willard E. (Willard Edwin) 1
Mason, Lucy Randolph, 1882-1959 1
McDonald, David J. (David John), 1902-1979 1
Munsingwear, Inc. (U.S.) 1
Murray, Philip, 1886-1952 1
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America 1
Playthings, Jewelry, and Novelty Workers' Union. Local 32 (Asheville, N.C.) 1
Progressive Party (U.S. : 1948) 1
Ramsay, John, 1902-1991 1
Riffe, John, 1904-1958 1
Ross, M. H. 1
Schnitzler, F. William (Frank William), 1904- 1
United Furniture Workers of America 1
United Mine Workers of America 1
United Presbyterian Church of North America 1
United Steelworkers of America 1
Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965 1
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