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AFSCME Executive Board

Date: 09 26 1946
Description: American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees executive board. Thirteen men are sitting around a table.
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AFSCME Executve Board Witnessing Charter Signing

Date: 09 26 1946
Description: American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees executive board witnessing the signing of a charter for the Atlantic City, New Jersey convention...
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AFSCME Speakers

Date: 06 16 1947
Description: Group portrait of speakers at the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) summer meeting held at 622 Mendota Court (Beta The...
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Meeting in Tennessee during CIO period

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Description: Meeting in Tennessee during CIO period, on a street.
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CIO Meeting at Highlander

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Description: Three men smoking cigarettes around a table, as part of a CIO meeting at Highlander Folk School.
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Early CIO Session at Highlander

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Description: Zilphia Horton leading songs at Highlander during an early union CIO session. Charlie Wilson, board member, extreme right, next to him is his wife Frankie....
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Man Holding Baby at Farmers Union Workshop

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Description: Two men sitting, one holding a baby in his arms, attending a Farmers Union Workshop.
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Alabama Farmers Union Meeting

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Description: A man with a short tie standing up during an Alabama Farmers Union Meeting. An image in the background reads, "Peace, Abundance, Security, and Democracy f...
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Annual CIO Convention

Date: 1944
Description: Southern CIO regional directors and other CIO officials meet during the CIO convention to plan a CIO term at Highlander. Myles Horton is in the lower right...
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Ted Kennedy

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Description: Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts at a breakfast meeting with a group of labor leaders.
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Patrick Gorman

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Description: Patrick Gorman, president of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union, with Hilton Hanna, of Madison, Wisconsin, also a leader in that interna...
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Philip Murray at the UPWA Convention

Date: 05 1950
Description: Philip Murray (dark suit in the center of the photo), the president of the CIO, being escorted to the podium to speak to the annual convention of the Unite...
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CIO Convention

Date: 11 21 1950
Description: Elevated view of the annual convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations at the Palmer House hotel.
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First AFL-CIO Convention

Date: 1955
Description: Elevated view of the first national convention after the merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
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Wartime Labor Agreement

Date: 07 14 1942
Description: Meeting of United Packinghouse Workers Local 69 stewards and committeemen employed at the Hygrade Food Products plant. They were meeting to organize a labo...
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African American Labor Leaders

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Description: Banquet for African-American delegates to the convention of the Alabama State Industrial Union Council.
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Women's Activities Delegates

Date: 1953
Description: Delegates to the first Women's Activities Conference sponsored by the United Packinghouse Workers of America. A sign behind the three women concerns the im...
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Charles Hayes of the UPWA

Date: 03 1958
Description: Charles Hayes (center), director of the United Packinghouse Workers of America District 1 and a national leader in UPWA's efforts to organize and support t...
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Striking Workers at Lookout Oil

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Description: Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) Local 186 listen to talk from union representative Grover Hathaway, who is not in the pic...
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Packinghouse District Convention

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Description: An undated photograph of a convention of District 1 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. A sign in the background bears a picture of President Fr...

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