Caroline Decker Gladstein oral history 1976

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Caroline Decker Gladstein oral history 1976

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2489n4v5

Contains a transcribed copy of Sue Cobble's 1976 interviews with Caroline Decker Gladstein documenting her experiences as a Communist Party activist and labor organizer in the 1920s and 1930s across the United States. Topics include: the 1931 Harlan County, Kentucky, coal miners' strike; Communist organizing campaigns in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and California; the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union; and farm workers' strikes in California.

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California historical society

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California historical society

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Gladstein, Caroline Decker

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Biographical Information The following biographical sketch was written by interviewer Sue Cobble: Born in 1912 in Macon, Georgia, of immigrant Jewish Eastern European parents, Caroline Decker Gladstein became involved with radical politics and trade union organizing in her early teens through the influence of her older brother, then a student at Columbia University in New York City, and her older sister, who was a national officer...