Guide to the May Chen Papers, 1980-2015

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Guide to the May Chen Papers, 1980-2015

1980-2015

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May Chen (1948- ) is a labor organizer who has been actively engaged in outreach and advocacy for immigrant workers for over 20 years. Most of the files in her collection relate to May Chen's work as a labor organizer and community activist in the New York's Chinatown from 1989 to 2015. The first component is organizing Chinese immigrant garment workers to fight sweatshop conditions. These files contain newspaper clippings, logistic planning documents, meeting notes, contact lists, press releases, flyers and memos for UNITE's Chinatown Rally to Stop Sweatshops on August 28, 1998. The other component of Chen's collection consists of advocacy work to aid Chinatown's economic recovery after 9/11.

17.75 Linear Feet in 16 record cartons, 2 manuscript boxes,1 half manuscript box, 1 flat box, 1 artifact box, 1 cassette box, and 2 oversize folders; 28 Gigabytes on 5 CD-R, 3 CD-RW, and 6 DVD-R; 3 videodiscs (dvd); 6 videocassettes (vhs); 4 videocassettes (minidv); 13 videocassettes (vhs-c); and 1 audiocassette.

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Chen, May Ying, 1948-

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May Chen (1948- ) is a labor organizer who has been actively engaged in outreach and advocacy for immigrant workers for over 20 years. Born and raised in Boston, MA, she worked as a high school teacher, wrote for the Asian-American publications Gidra and Roots, founded a day-care center that employed mainly immigrant women, and served as a local officer (Local 23-25) and International Vice President of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (later UNITE, UNITE/HERE, and Workers United)....

Chin, Rockwell (Rocky)

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Rockwell "Rocky" Chin has lived and worked in Lower Manhattan since the early 1980s, where he has been active in labor, community, and civil rights struggles. He was born in Washington, D.C. and completed his undergraduate studies at Lehigh University. Chin went on to receive a master's degree in City Planning from Yale University in 1971 and a law degree from the University of Southern California in 1974. At the New York City Commission on Human Rights (HRC), Chin served as Assistant Deputy ...