United States, 39.76, -98.5AFL-CIO. Civil Rights DepartmentKehrer, E.T., 1921-1996Pollard, William Edward, 1915-2013King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006Hill, Norman, 1933-Johnson, Napoleon B. (Napoleon Bonaparte), IIMillsaps College1978Consists 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.application/pdfenghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/William Pollard [Executive Director], correspondence, 1978Southern Labor Archiveshttps://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/3881592AFL-CIO Departments, 1964-1979AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Southern Office Records (L1983-26)Labor leadersAfrican American labor union membersCivil rightsLabor unions--OrganizingUnited States--Tennessee-Tombigbee WaterwayAFL-CIO. Civil Rights DepartmentEmergency Land Fund (U.S.)North Georgia Building and Construction Trades CouncilMillsaps CollegeA. Philip Randolph InstituteJ.P. Stevens & Co.William Pollard [Executive Director], correspondence, 1978Text