Ernest Green urges union members to join with Negroes and farmers for economic progress in the South, Seated is State AFL-CIO President Bill Becker [graphic]. 1967.

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Hubbell, Ken. Ernest Green urges union members to join with Negroes and farmers for economic progress in the South, Seated is State AFL-CIO President Bill Becker [graphic].

Ernest Green urges union members to join with Negroes and farmers for economic progress in the South, Seated is State AFL-CIO President Bill Becker [graphic]. 1967.

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Negative of Ernest Green (standing) and Bill Becker from June 16, 1967, Arkansas Union Labor Bulletin article, "Ernest Green Urges Unity of Negro-White Working People," Vol. 71, No. 2. Ernest Green urges union members to join with Negroes and farmers for economic progress in the South at the Arkansas State AFL-CIO Convention in June 1967 in Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas. The International Ladies Garment Workers Union were on strike from the Ottenheimer Brothers Manufacturing Company at Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, from October 1966 until November 1967. Ernest Green, at the age of 16, was one nine African-American students who helped to integrate Central High School in Little Rock in 1957. After finishing graduate school, Green pursued a building trade apprenticeship for the Adolph Institute. He was appointed Assistant Secretary in the Labor Department by President Carter, a position he held from 1977 to 1981. Green has worked for Lehman Brothers since 1985. J. Bill Becker was involved in many political battles from civil rights to worker's compensation reform. He studied economics at the University of Illinois. After WWII, Becker spent nine years organizing labor unions from Louisiana to Kentucky. He was one of the founding members of the merged AFL-CIO in 1956. J. Bill Becker was the State AFL-CIO President from 1964-1996.

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