White Citizen's Councils (2 of 3) [page 62]

Date:

1956

URL at Partner site:

https://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/49508

DLG URL:

https://crdl.usg.edu/record/umc_awr_49508

Subject:

Labor and Race relations

Spatial coverage:

United States, 39.76, -98.5

Medium:

records (documents)

Description:

Page 62 of folder of materials from the "Subject Files, 1943-1965" series from the AFL, CIO, and AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department.

Attribution:

Courtesy of University of Maryland Libraries, AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department records.

Identifier:

labor-087920-062||Series 1, Box 4, Folder 40

Holding Institution:

University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries

Collection:

AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department records

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/

Transcription:

Rt. #1 Box 44 Pell City Ala. Received Feb 27 1956 George Meany Pres. AF.L-C.IO. Dear Sir I[xx] am a Southern boy writing you concerning your views on segregation in the South. I am a member of the International Association of Machinists and I would like to say that you are destroying the Union in the South. If you people are so much for the Communists and Negroes, why don’t we move them all up there. I think it would be to all our best interest to take a different stand on this matter. I believe that the Union is a great organization and has helped the working man no little, but if it continues to run in the Channels that you have expressed, we in the South will be forced to pull out. As [xx] we all know the NAACP is backed by a Communist-front organization, how can you an [xx] intelligent leader of a union and a patriotic American be for this cause? Here’s hoping you will see things in a different light. Thanking You Robert Payne