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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RCG-02
Goodwin discusses the effect of equal opportunity programs on staffing of the Bureau of Employment Security agencies, funding for the programs, and the Mexican farm workers bill, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RCG-01
Goodwin discusses the state of the Bureau of Employment and the Labor Department in the late 1950’s, the decision to separate the Employment Service from the Unemployment Insurance Service, and the Civil Rights Act and Plans for Progress program, among other issues.
Collection
USDL
Records 1953-1964 (bulk 1961-1963). Microfilm copies of records created by the Department of Labor during the Kennedy administration, consisting of reading files of correspondence by the Secretary of Labor and other department officials, reports, studies, briefing materials, speeches, press releases, and publications. Also includes records of the Under Secretary of Labor, the Solicitor of Labor, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Office of Policy Planning and Research, the Women's Bureau, the Bureau of Employment Security, the Office of Manpower Automation and Training, and the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. Hard copy printed material includes publications, reports, periodicals, newsletters, statistics and data sets, speeches, press releases, articles, booklets and pamphlets, and promotional material.