Title: UAW Community Action Program (CAP) Dept. Collection Type: Records Date: 1948-1978 Size: 34 linear feet ID#: 498-uaw OCLC: |
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Scope & Contents
The UAW Community Action Program (CAP) Department was formed in 1969 when, after disaffiliation from the AFL-CIO, the union set up CAP Councils throughout the United States to replace the Citizenship-Legislative Department. The CAP Councils’ stated purpose was to work in community, civic, welfare, educational, environmental, cultural, citizenship-legislative, and consumer protection activities to improve the economic and social conditions of UAW members and families. From the 1940s through the 1960s, the CAP Department was called the Political Action, Citizenship, or Citizenship-Legislative Department.
Additional files relating to the CAP Department may be found in the UAW Political Action Department-Roy Reuther Files and the UAW Citizenship Department-Roy Reuther Files Collections.
The records of the UAW CAP Department consist of publications, voting records, resolutions, minutes, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings, press releases, legal documents, and congressional testimony relating to CAP concerns.
Democratic Party
Goldwater Campaign
Kennedy Campaign
Legislation re CAP concerns
Nixon Campaign
Political Elections
Political Party Conventions
Voter Registration
Charles Biegi
Roy Reuther
Elmer Blankenship
Walter Reuther
William Dodds
Horace Sheffield
Thomas Gibbons
Arthur Shulty
Russell Leach
Edith Van Horn
Edward Purdy
Frank Wallick
Several bumper stickers, posters, and buttons relating to election campaigns and voter registration were transferred to the Archives Audiovisual Collection. A large number of agreements, constitutions, and several books, convention reports, and government reports were transferred to the Archives Library.