Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
AFL-CIO Metropolitan Detroit Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000053_MD
Abstract
The American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) Metropolitan Detroit is the central organization for all Michigan AFL-CIO unions that have locals in Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb Counties. Their records pertain to activities specifically in Wayne County, prior to the merger of the three county councils in 1986, including those of its former presidents Frank Martel (1948-1956), Al Barbour (1958-1967) and its former vice-president Alex Fuller (1959-1967). The records...
Dates:
1918 - 1967
Merle Henrickson Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000193
Abstract
Merle Henrickson served as president of United Public Workers Local 275 of Detroit in the late 1940's. From the 1940s through the 1980s, he was involved
with the neighborhood and community councils of Detroit, particularly the Brightmoor
District Council. He was a major figure in the citizen movement to improve public
schools in Detroit and as such, he was deeply involved in school desegregation in the 1970s. His wife, Wilma worked for 15 years in Detroit Public Schools and was active in the...
Dates:
1945 - 1973; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1950; 1935 - 1991
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Merle Henrickson Papers
UAW Fair Practices and Anti-Discrimination Department Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000637
Abstract
Subjects include: African-American workers; anti-Semitism; civil rights; community action programs; CIO state councils; race relations; Democratic Party; Detroit Revolutionary Union Movements; employment discrimination; Sunnyhills Housing Cooperative; Ku Klux Klan; Mexican Americans; gender discrimination; women's rights; United Steelworkers of America; sharecroppers; skilled trades; school desegregation
Note: Box 13 is unavailable.
Note: Box 13 is unavailable.
Dates:
1940 - 1980