- Collection:
- AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records
- Title:
- Don Slaiman [Executive Director], correspondence, 1971
- Creator:
- AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Kehrer, E.T., 1921-1996
Slaiman, Donald, 1919-2000
Ramsay, Claude E. (Claude Elwood), 1916-1986 - Date of Original:
- 1971
- Subject:
- Labor leaders
Labor unions
Labor union members
African American labor union members
Strikes and lockouts--Food industry and trade
Affirmative action programs
Student movements
Labor unions--Organizing
AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
United States. Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
University of Florida
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
A. Philip Randolph Institute
Pascagoula Metal Trades Council - People:
- Slaiman, Donald, 1919-2000
Kehrer, E. T., 1921-1996
Hill, Norman, 1933- - Location:
- United States, Florida, Alachua County, Gainesville, 29.65163, -82.32483
United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
United States, Mississippi, Jackson County, Pascagoula, 30.36576, -88.55613 - Medium:
- files (document groupings)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Director Donald Slaiman. Topics include Kehrer's reports on the 1971 strike of African American bakery workers in Savannah, Georgia, union organizing efforts among faculty and student workers at the University of Florida, and discussion of the AFL-CIO's participation in arbitrating compliance cases brought before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Also includes text of a 1971 address by Slaiman on the relationship of African Americans and organized labor.
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. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/AFLCIO/id/23170
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: L1983-26_01_01_1593_13, AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Southern Office Records, Southern Labor Archives, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University, Atlanta.
- Extent:
- 108 pages
- Original Collection:
- Don Slaiman [Executive Director], correspondence, 1971
Southern Labor Archives
https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/396
1593
AFL-CIO Departments, 1964-1979
AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Southern Office Records (L1983-26) - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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