<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:coverage>United States, 39.76, -98.5</dc:coverage><dc:creator>AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department</dc:creator><dc:creator>Tennessee-Tombigbee Affirmative Action Coordinating Committee</dc:creator><dc:creator>Kehrer, E. T., 1921-1996</dc:creator><dc:creator>United States. Army. Corps of Engineers</dc:creator><dc:creator>Minority Peoples Council on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway</dc:creator><dc:creator>Paris, Wendell</dc:creator><dc:creator>Recruitment and Training Program, Inc.</dc:creator><dc:creator>Ramsay, Claude E. (Claude Elwood), 1916-1986</dc:creator><dc:creator>National Rural Council</dc:creator><dc:date>1977</dc:date><dc:description>Consists of correspondence, documents, and newspaper articles related to the construction of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, particularly affirmative action and local preference hiring policies for the project. Includes a Minority Peoples Council on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (MPCTTW) statement criticizing the governance of the Waterway project for failure to prioritize development benefits to poor, Black, and indigenous populations in the Waterway area.</dc:description><dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/</dc:rights><dc:source>Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Project: Affirmative Action Committee</dc:source><dc:source>Southern Labor Archives</dc:source><dc:source>https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/433</dc:source><dc:source>2835</dc:source><dc:source>Series IV: Affirmative Action Files, 1967-1987</dc:source><dc:source>AFL-CIO Southern Area Civil Rights Department records (L1989-17)</dc:source><dc:subject>Waterways</dc:subject><dc:subject>Civil engineering</dc:subject><dc:subject>Canals</dc:subject><dc:subject>Construction industry</dc:subject><dc:subject>Affirmative action programs</dc:subject><dc:subject>Rural development</dc:subject><dc:subject>AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department</dc:subject><dc:subject>Tennessee-Tombigbee Affirmative Action Coordinating Committee</dc:subject><dc:subject>United States. Army. Corps of Engineers</dc:subject><dc:subject>Minority Peoples Council on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway</dc:subject><dc:subject>Recruitment and Training Program, Inc.</dc:subject><dc:title>Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Project: Affirmative Action Committee</dc:title><dc:type>Text</dc:type></oai_dc:dc>