From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. This document from [?] Whitman relates some of his experiences networking for the AFL-CIO and the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) and the possible allying of the labor movement with...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. This list of New Orleans contacts made by Gene Guerrero includes observations on the positions held by each regarding civil rights and labor unions and the help they offered to the project.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Uncle Sam, with a black eye labeled "U.S. Economy," has been knocked to the ground. The words "$2 billion loss" radiate from Uncle Sam's throbbing eye, and over his head are marks...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Postcard mailed to Kathleen Dahl on April 22, 1965; image taken by Edwin Friend at Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, TN during Labor Day weekend 1957, features Martin Luther King, Jr., Abner W....
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A typed letter from Mary Sue Gellatly of Shaw, Mississippi (Bolivar County) and summer volunteer of the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union in that same city discusses specific amounts and types of...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Letter from Karen Pate of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) to friends, dated June 11, 1965. Pate thanks friends for their financial support and requests further support. ...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Report describing the beginning of the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union (MFLU), which was founded in Shaw, Mississippi, to work for higher wages for cotton choppers and truck drivers. ...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) staff newsletter describes some of the struggles within the organization and explains a plan for a summer project in Washington, D. C.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Minutes of the April 1965 meeting of COFO's fifth district leaders in Waveland, Mississippi. Includes discussion of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, labor unions, cooperative marketing,...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Claude Ramsay addresses the need of labor union organization in the Mississippi Delta. He explains the condition of African American farmers in the Delta and the economic effects that...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Staff reports from a number of SNCC projects, compiled at the Atlanta office by Jon Steinberg. Most describe voter registration, labor organization, or similar grass roots activity. In some...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This newsletter from Fayette County features descriptions of projects supported by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during 1965. The projects described are focus on...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Brief letter from Miller to Margaret [last name unknown], which includes an account of a labor dispute (presumably in California).
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A newsletter from the Holly Springs Freedom House, now relocated to 200 Rust Avenue (signed as the Needy Group of Mississippi). Discusses local news, union actions a Klan rally, and requests...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. Five men dressed in Santa Claus costumes stand on a street corner under a street sign labeled "Anti-poverty program street." Each is ringing a bell, and four stand beside...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The report explains the reasoning and merits of the labor movement in 1965. It discusses the need for radical leadership and more union organization in the South. It also mentions students'...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two factory workers are talking outside a building with "Agency shop" on the door. A factory is in the background. One man holds a rolled up document reading, "La. Senate vote,"...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A nervous looking man labeled "Congress" stands in front of the Capitol building, looking up at the dome, and yells "Careful!" A giant-sized hand labeled, "Proposed Adam Clayton...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Hoffa sits at a desk with a name plate that reads, "Teamsters president." Another man in the room is looking out the window, and the blinds on the window are slanted so...
