William Pollard [Executive Director], correspondence, 1978 [page 56]
- Creator:
- AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department, Kehrer, E. T., 1921-1996, Pollard, William Edward, 1915-2013, King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006, Hill, Norman, 1933-, Johnson, Napoleon B. (Napoleon Bonaparte), II, and Millsaps College
- Date:
- 1978
- URL at Partner site:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/digital/collection/AFLCIO/id/21392
- DLG URL:
- https://crdl.usg.edu/record/gsu_aflcio_21474
- Subject:
- Labor leaders, African American labor union members, Civil rights, Labor unions--Organizing, United States--Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department, Emergency Land Fund (U.S.), North Georgia Building and Construction Trades Council, Millsaps College, A. Philip Randolph Institute, J.P. Stevens & Co., Pollard, William Edward, 1915-2013, Kehrer, E. T., 1921-1996, King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006, Hill, Norman, 1933-, Johnson, Napoleon B. (Napoleon Bonaparte), II, and Meany, George, 1894-1980
- Spatial coverage:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- files (document groupings)
- Description:
- Page 56 of the folder.||Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Director William Pollard. Topics include the Civil Rights Department's work on equal opportunity hiring for the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway project and reports on strike and boycott efforts against J.P. Stevens textile corporation.||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 and training programs; a wide range of groups and persons concerned with community action and social reform issues, principally in the field of civil rights; and political figures.
- Attribution:
- Courtesy of Southern Labor Archives, Georgia State University, AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department, Southern Office records.
- Identifier:
- L1983-26_01_01_1592_05_056
- Holding Institution:
- Southern Labor Archives, Georgia State University
- Collection:
- AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department, Southern Office records
- Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/