Box 1
Contains 40 Results:
Randolph, A. Philip, 1979
Civil rights and labor leader, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first African American-led labor union.
Rivera, Dennis, 1990 - 1992
Health‑care labor leader and president of a major New York health‑care workers’ union.
Roberts, Lillian, 1976 - 1980
Labor organizer and long‑time leader in New York public sector unions.
Schneiderman, Rose, 1976
Polish-born American labor organizer, women’s rights advocate, and leader in the garment workers’ movement.
Wyatt, Addie, 1975 - 1978
Labor leader, civil rights activist, and one of the first African American women to hold high office in a major labor union, the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union.
Industrial Workers of World (IWW), 1972 - 1979
The folder contains publications of the IWW, such as the pamphlet "The General Strike for Industrial Freedom (March 1972) and "One Big Union" (1979).
Jewish Labor Committee, 1991 - 1995
Labor history: events, people, and commemorations, 1982 - 2001
The folder includes articles about the great Flint sit-down strike at the General Motors Fisher Body Number One plant in Flint, Michigan, in December 1936; the Rose Freeman and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire; the Tenement Museum in Manhattan; women miners; Labor History Month events, and additional material.
Labor history: maps, 1995 - 1998
Maps included in this folder are the N.Y.C. labor history map prepared by the AFL-CIO and the History of Labor in New York State map by the New York Labor History Association, along with its index.