Reminiscences of Palmer Weber : oral history, 1985.

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Reminiscences of Palmer Weber : oral history, 1985.

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Family background and southern cultural heritage; student activist at University of Virginia; union organizer; study of destitute migration; national defense and mobilization of labor for war production; abolition of poll tax; Washington political scene; internal struggles of Congress of Industrial Organization's Political Action Committee; black voting rights; 1948 presidential campaign; marketing analyst on Wall Street; setting up Emergency Civil Liberties Committee; involvement of Wall Street in Vietnam War.

Transcript: 368 leaves.Tape: 11 cassettes.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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