Womack, Richard G., 1939-

Abstract This collection is comprised of the records of the AFL-CIO's Civil Rights Department, primarily from the 1960s through the 1980s and under the directorships of Donald Slaiman (1964-1974) and William Pollard (1974-1986). The Civil Rights Department worked to oppose employment discrimination and for other labor civil rights causes. Materials include correspondence, press releases, reports, subject files, and interviews. The topics in this collection cover all the activities conducted by the...

Scope and Contents This series is comprised of speeches in various forms (notes, outlines, rough drafts, edited drafts, and final versions), interviews, testimony, statements, and articles of three directors of the Civil Rights Department: Donald Slaiman, William Pollard, and Richard Womack. It contains printed, near print, and manuscript material (notes, speeches, articles, and transcripts). Speeches may be duplicated in other series and there may be speeches elsewhere that are not duplicated in this...