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Guide to the Oral History of the American Left Collection, 1940-2011

Title: Guide to the Oral History of the American Left Collection, 1940-2011

The Tamiment Library at New York University established the Oral History of the American Left in 1976 in order to collect and preserve the memories of veteran activists. These interviews describe seven decades of Left politics from the 1910s through the 1970s. They document the full spectrum of left politics in the twentieth century, including socialism, Communism, anarchism, Trotskyism, and the New Left. There are interviews with both leaders and rank-and-file activists.

ArchivalResource: 30 Linear Feet in 11 record cartons and 19 compact disk boxes.

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/oh_002/oh_002.html View

Dollinger, Genora Johnson. Individual labor activists.

Title: Individual labor activists.

Presents the oral histories of four individuals active in the labor movement in different regions of the country and/or who were participants in historic moments in labor history. Genora Johnson Dollinger was the founder of the Women's Emergency Brigade during the 1936-7 auto workers strike in Flint, Michigan; Elinor Glenn was a leading organizer of public employees in Los Angeles starting in the 1940s and was a leader in the Service Employees International Union (SEIU); Mary Thomas (O"Neal) was an eyewitness to the massacre during the Ludlow, Colorado strike of 1914; and Stan Weir was a rank and file organizer among California auto and longshore workers and the founder of Singlejack Books.

ArchivalResource: 29 compact discs (approx. 35 hrs) ; 4 3/4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62097470 View