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AFSCME Communications Department Records
Collection
Identifier: LR002204
Abstract
AFSCME has produced a regularly published magazine since its inception. Publication duties for this organ and other materials were accomplished by the Education and Publications Department for the first twenty years of AFSCME’s existence. The 1954 Convention, however, passed Resolution 14, establishing a Publications and Public Relations Department. This new department would continue to publish the AFSCME magazine and other materials and would also take on new media public relations duties both...
Dates:
1967 - 2002
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
AFSCME Local 1733: Memphis, Tennessee Records
Collection
Identifier: LR001992
Abstract
Sanitation workers in AFSCME Local 1733 in Memphis, Tennessee led a strike in 1968 to gain union recognition. The strike lasted for 65 days and garnered national attention as Local 1733's campaign for labor rights became fused with the struggle for civil rights. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. lent his support to the strikers by visiting Memphis and leading marches. While there, on April 4, 1968, King was assassinated. The strike was settled soon after King's death. Local 1733 went on to wage other...
Dates:
1962 - 1974; Majority of material found within 1968 - 1970
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
AFSCME Office of the Secretary-Treasurer: William Lucy Records
Collection
Identifier: LR001989
Abstract
The AFSCME Office of the Secretary-Treasurer oversees the general financial health of the international union, keeping records for its locals, councils, and the headquarters staff. The Office keeps files on council and local trusteeships, maintains per capita dues payments by locals and councils, issues charters to new locals, and suspends and disbands locals or councils when problems arise. William Lucy held this position for 38 years, 1972-2010.
Lucy joined AFSCME as a civil...
Dates:
1970 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1972 - 2000
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
AFSCME Organizing Department Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000682_OO
Abstract
This collection reflects the work done by and through the AFSCME Organizing Department, 1967-1972. Important subjects and people that appear in the collection include public employee organizing; recruitment; organizations; elections; strikes; Chairman of the AFSCME Judicial Panel Joseph L. Ames; International Field Director P.J. Ciampa; and International President Jerry Wurf.
Dates:
1967 - 1972
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
AFSCME Publications
Collection
Identifier: LR002503
Abstract
AFSCME Publications is a collection comprised of serials created and collected by AFSCME International, District Councils, and Locals. The collection also contains material produced as part of AFSCME’s biannual international conventions and articles published about AFSCME from an academic standpoint. The publications in this collection arrived at the Reuther Library over time and came from multiple sources.
The collection features AFSCME’s official publication, which was first known...
Dates:
1935 - 2019; Majority of material found within 1937 - 1973
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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- African American labor union members 1
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- Ames, Joseph Lynn, 1925- 3
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- Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (U.S.) 2
- Fauntroy, Walter E., 1933- 2
- Gotbaum, Victor, 1921-2015 2
- Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 2
- Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009 2
- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 2
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 2
- Mandela, Nelson (Nelson Rolihlahla), 1918-2013 2
- McEntee, Gerald W. 2
- Newman, Winn, 1924-1994 2
- Roberts, Lillian 2
- Zander, Arnold S. (Arnold Scheuer), 1901-1975 2
- AFSCME. Council 36 (Calif.) 1
- AFSCME. District Council 25 (Detroit, Mich.) 1
- AFSCME. District Council 37 (New York, N.Y.) 1
- AFSCME. District Council 77 (Detroit, Mich.) 1
- AFSCME. International Convention 1
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- AFSCME. Local 1640 (Detroit, Mich.) 1
- AFSCME. Local 1733 (Memphis, Tenn.) 1
- Barry, Marion, 1936-2014 1
- Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
- Chapman, Gordon Warner, 1907- 1
- Clinton, Hillary Rodham (Hillary Diane Rodham), 1947 1
- Coalition of Labor Union Women (U.S.) 1
- Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
- Gore, Albert, 1948- 1
- Harrington, Michael, 1928-1989 1
- Hooks, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Lawson), 1925-2010 1
- Humphrey, Hubert H., 1911-1978 1
- Jordan, Vernon E. (Vernon Eulion), 1935- 1
- Kirkland, Lane 1
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- Kubista, Roy 1
- McEntee, William J. (William Joseph), 1903- 1
- McGovern, George S. (George Stanley), 1922-2012 1
- Meany, George, 1894-1980 1
- Mondale, Walter F. (Walter Frederick), 1928- 1
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) (1913-1994) 1
- Public Services International 1
- Reagan, Ronald (Ronald Wilson), 1911-2004 1
- Robinson, Randall, 1941- 1
- Saunders, Lee (Lee A.) 1
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