William Pollard [Executive Director], correspondence, 1978 [page 59]
- Date:
- 1978
- URL at Partner site:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/digital/collection/AFLCIO/id/21395
- 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||Meany, George, 1894-1980
- Spatial coverage:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- files (document groupings)
- Description:
- Page 59 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_059
- 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/
- Transcription:
- of cigarettes) before they brought me a bowl of chili. I asked her if she want to Mexico for it, she told me I could go somewhere else if I didn’t like their service. Being that there is a very limited number of eating establishments in Allendale I bought a hot plate and began cooking my meals in my room. However, these appear to be everyday occurrences and of little relavence [sic] to the real problem in Allendale. From talking to various leaders, both black & white within the city, it appears that these racial tensions are not new in Allendale. Race related murders are quite common, about 2 or 3 a year. The recent murders, [x] involving a black police woman who aledgedly [sic] was bucking the police chief [of which] had her trailor [sic] burned, then the next morning supposedly commited [sic] suicide in the police station. This was about 3 weeks ago and since then another police officer, (white) was murdered, they arrested a black man, and the police chief resigned. [x] When I was cold cocked waiting for workers at Piggly- Wiggly, upon reporting it to the Police I got the feeling, as did Bob Ross & Charles Jackson, that they knew who did it but could not be bothered. Several [x] meetings with committee members and community leaders & shop owners revealed that racial tensions are extremely high and ready to explode. Harry [x] Anderson, Committee Member, reports that many whites in the plant are refusing to hear about a