Federal Government, 1947-1979

This series is comprised primarily of files on federal government institutions and agencies as related to civil rights issues. It also documents the various government-sponsored councils, committees, and boards on which several AFL-CIO officials served (most notably Civil Rights Department director Donald Slaiman, who served on the Department of Commerce's National Advisory Council on Minority Business Enterprise; the Department of Commerce's National Citizens Committee on Community Relations Service; the Board of Directors of the National Association of Intergroup Relations Officials; and was labor representative to the Department of Labor's Advisory Committee on Equal Opportunity in Apprenticeship and Training; also, AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer William Schnitzler, who served on the President's Committee on Civil Rights and the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity).

This series contains printed, near print, and manuscript material (agendas, minutes, notes, reports, press releases, pamphlets, speeches, and statements).