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Title: UAW Fair Practices and Anti-Discrimination Department Type : Records Date : 1940-1980 Size : 66 linear feet, 66 storage boxes ID #: 637-uaw OCLC: ©Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs HEFA.01d.update |
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Scope & Contents
The UAW Fair Practices and Anti-Discrimination Department, established at the 1946 convention under the direction of Walter Reuther and William Oliver, mandated the formation of local union Fair Practices Committees to promote fair employment practices and to eliminate discrimination in the workplace. Oliver remained director until his retirement in 1980.
In addition to investigating complaints of the violation of the union’s anti-discrimination policy, the department organized human relations programs and projects in conjunction with the UAW Education Department and pressed for enactment of federal and state FEPC and open housing legislation.
The papers of the UAW Fair Practices and Anti-Discrimination Department consist of correspondence, reports, minutes, grievances, press releases, clippings, articles, pamphlets and other printed material reflecting the department’s efforts to enhance the civil rights of American workers.
African Americans in the UAW
Anti-Semitism
Charleston Hospital Strike
Civil Liberties
Civil Rights
Community Action Programs
CIO State Councils
Democratic Party, State & National
Detroit Commission on Community Relations
Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
Employment Discrimination
Employment Discrimination in UAW Locals
Medgar Evers’ Murder
Fair Employment Practices Committees, State & National
Housing Discrimination
Human Rights
Ku Klux Klan
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
League for Industrial Democracy
Mexican Americans
NAACP
Native Americans
Negro American Labor Council
Kwame Nkrumah
Poor People’s March on Washington
Race Relations
Racial Discrimination
Rancho Agua Caliente
School Desegregation
Sexual Discrimination
Sharecroppers
Skilled Trades
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Sunnyhills Housing Cooperative
Emmet Till Lynching
United Steelworkers of America
Urban League, Detroit & National
War on Poverty
Women’s Rights
World War II, Postwar Economic Conversion
Ralph Abernathy
Irving Bluestone
Arnold Callan
George W. Crockett, Jr.
Caroline Davis
Frank Ditto
Nelson Jack Edwards
Douglas Fraser
Richard Gosser
Martha Griffiths
John F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Norman Matthews
Emil Mazey
William Oliver
A. Philip Randolph
Victor Reuther
Walter Reuther
John Rice
R. J. Thomas
George L-P. Weaver
Walter L. White
Roy Wilkins
Leonard Woodcock
Whitney Young
Transferred
A large number of contracts, constitutions, books, and newsletters have been placed in the Archives Library, and several photographs, buttons, posters, bumper stickers and audio tapes of speeches on race relations topics have been transferred to the Archives Audiovisual Collection.