National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees. Series 6. Labor, hospital and civil rights leaders interviews, 1977.

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National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees. Series 6. Labor, hospital and civil rights leaders interviews, 1977.

Consist of interviews with six individuals who were prominent in labor, the health care industry, or the civil rights movement and who participated in various activities and relationships pertinent to the organizing campaigns, strikes, and formulation of the 1199 Hospital Division. Includes interviews of John Connorton (director, Greater New York Hospital Association), Abe Raskin (journalist, labor editor, NEW YORK TIMES), Monsignor James Fitzpatrick, Bayard Rustin (civil rights leader, president, A. Philip Randolph Institute), Harry Van Arsdale (president, New York City Central Labor Council), and Bill Michaelson (officer, RWDSU, District 65).

6 transcripts (173 p.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7911036

Cornell University Library

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The unedited oral history interviews of the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees discuss the evolution of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union drugstore local, representing pharmacists and drug clerks in New York City (known as Local 1199 and District 1199) into an international union of non-professional and professional workers in voluntary and non-profit health institutions, including hospitals, clinics and nursing homes as well as drugstores. From the d...