- keyword(s): "Operation Dixie"
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Stetson Kennedy papers
AFL-CIO Region 8 (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Region 5 records
John G. Ramsay papers
James F. Barrett papers
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.
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Memphis-Jackson Joint Board records
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.
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Georgia-Tennessee-Alabama Joint Board records
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.
M. H. Ross papers
AFL-CIO Region 8 records
AFL-CIO Region 8 records
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).
Operation Dixie, 1943-1947, undated
Note: See Series IX: Pamphlets for additional material on some of the subject files listed below.
[CIO - Operation Dixie], 1940s
Operation Dixie [L1987-38], 1987
Note: See Series IX: Pamphlets for additional material on some of the subject files listed below.
Southern CIO drive (Operation Dixie), Macon, Georgia - labor, organization, 1946
[CIO drive in South (Operation Dixie) - some relates to Ross oral histories], 1940s, undated
"The CIO Operation Dixie, and the Evolution of Church / Labor Relations in the South" by Brian S. Adams
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
Organizing and Arbitration, 1930-1955
Publications, 1939-1959
The publications consist of booklets and pamphlets relating to the Textile Workers Union, Operation Dixie and other union literature.
Subject Files, 1940, 1946-1974
Myles Horton oral history interview, December 5, 1989
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.