National Office correspondence and records, 1938-1967.

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National Office correspondence and records, 1938-1967.

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The collection consists of records relating to the National Office of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare from 1938-1967. Includes correspondence, annual and financial reports, state committee data, news releases, clippings, and petitions. Of particular interest are records relating to the organizing drive of the American Federation of Labor (1946); the Fair Employment Practices Committee (1946); Anti-Lynch Crusade, Washington, D.C. (1946); the House Committee on Un-American Activities investigation of the SCHW (1947); and the Henry A. Wallace presidential campaign in 1946.

.83 linear ft.

Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7404034

Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities (1934-1975)

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From 1934 to 1937 The U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities began as the Special Committee on Un-American Activities and was also known as the McCormack-Dickstein Committee. The Dies Committee, was created on May 26, 1938, with the approval of House Resolution 282, which authorized the Speaker of the House to appoint a special committee of seven members to investigate un-American activities in the United States, domestic diffusion of propaganda, and all other questions relating thereto...

Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965

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United States. Committee on Fair Employment Practice

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The Fair Employment Practice Committee was established in 1941 to prevent discrimination in essential defense industries and to see to the needs of minority workers. From the description of Selected documents, 1941-1946. [microform] (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 173203798 ...

American Federation of Trades.

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Southern Conference for Human Welfare

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The Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW) was formed in 1938 in Birmingham, Alabama to promote civil liberties and to combat economic problems in the South by expanding the New Deal to attack southern poverty. The organization campaigned against the poll tax, allied itself with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, held interracial meetings, and followed a "popular front" strategy which allowed Communists membership in SCHW. This policy led to charges of Communist influence, a factor ...