Wisconsin. Equal Rights Division: Hearing Files, 1963-1967

Summary Information

Title: Wisconsin. Equal Rights Division: Hearing Files
Inclusive Dates: 1963-1967

Creator:
  • Wisconsin. Equal Rights Division
Call Number: Series 1747; Audio 1380A

Quantity: 2.0 cubic feet (5 archives boxes) and 22 tape recordings

Repository:
Archival Locations:
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:
Files on fact-finding hearings conducted by the Division to gain information on employment and housing opportunities for minority group members, including testimony from business and industrial firms, labor organizations, and units of government on the racial characteristics of their members and personnel and their hiring, work, and membership practices. The files include correspondence, policy statements, application forms, testimony, and findings. Also included are recordings of many of the hearings covered in the files and recordings concerning civil rights groups and their suggestions for future division activity, state and federal employment rules, and a 1967 meeting with paper company representatives on Title VII and sex equity in the workplace.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ser01747
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