Joseph Jacobs oral history interviews, 1990 Aug. 15 and Oct. 9.

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Joseph Jacobs oral history interviews, 1990 Aug. 15 and Oct. 9.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477488

The collection consists of oral history interviews with Joseph Jacobs. In the August 15, 1990 interview Jacobs discusses his family background; parents' background in Poland, emigration to Patterson (N.J.); subsequent migration to Birmingham (Ala.); father's employment at ACIPCO; family name change from Yuskowitz to Jacobs; father's butcher business; Workmen's Circle; Hebrew school; move to New York in Jacobs' junior year of high school; father's union activity; recruitment of blacks in Birmingham to work in West Virginia mines as strikebreakers; the Morris Schwartz Theater; Labor Lyceum in Atlanta (Ga.); return to Atlanta in 1924; and the Socialist Party.

4 audiotapes ; cassette.Transcript (96 p.)

Georgia State University

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Georgia State University

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