June M. Rostan papers, 1975-1994.

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June M. Rostan papers, 1975-1994.

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Manuscript material, photographs, and audiotape recordings. Includes both personal and professional correspondence; scrapbooks on workshops and conferences; material concerning Rostan's affiliation with the Coal Employment Project, the Tennessee Committee on Occupational Health and Safety, the Appalachian Alliance, and "Threads," a Knoxville-based humanities project. Also, union organizing and promotional material plus Rostan's teaching and training materials for classes at Highlander Research and Education Center. The photographs depict coal mining strikes. The audiotapes contain interviews with United Furniture Workers of America members in Memphis, Tenn., during a 1981 strike and recordings of a workshop for furniture workers in Baltimore, Md., and a women's conference in Memphis, Tenn.

6 sound cassettes.

East Tennessee State University, TET

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East Tennessee State University, TET

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Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.)

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Myles Horton founded the Highlander Folk School in 1932 as an adult education institution based on the principle of empowerment. Horton and other School members worked towards mobilizing labor unions in the 1930s and Citizenship Schools during the civil rights movement beginning in the late 1950s. They worked with Martin Luther King, Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Guy and Candie Carawan, Septima Clark, and Rosa Parks, among others. In 1959, t...

Appalachian Alliance

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United Furniture Workers of America

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The United Furniture Workers of America was organized in 1937 by seceding factions of the Upholsterers' International Union of North America; the Furniture, Carpet, Linoleum and Awning Workers International Union of North America, and by independent organizations. From the description of United Furniture Workers of America records, 1943-1973. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38477513 Former members of the Upholsterers' International Union and others formed the...

Coal Employment Project

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Nonprofit organization formed in 1977 to fight discrimination against women in the coal industry and to work for the rights, health, and safety of women miners. Publisher of Coalmining women's support team news! (continued by CEP news) and sponsor of national conferences and workshops for women miners. From the description of Coal Employment Project records, 1977-1991. (East Tennessee State University). WorldCat record id: 36872656 ...

Southern Empowerment Project.

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Rostan, June.

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Educator, grassroots organizer, and labor and women's rights activist in the southern Appalachian region. Labor education coordinator at Highlander Research and Education Center, Knoxville, Tenn., during the late 1970s and early 1980s; health and safety coordinator for the Coal Employment Project (1982-87); educator with the Southern Empowerment Project (1987- ) From the description of June M. Rostan papers, 1975-1994. (East Tennessee State University). WorldCat record id: 36872835 ...