Willie McKether collection, 2002-2005.

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Willie McKether collection, 2002-2005.

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Includes the original materials compiled by Willie McKether in prepartion for his doctorial thesis at Wayne State University as well as a copy of his doctoral thesis. Interviews were conducted with more than 90 Saginaw residents during the years 2002-2003. The interviews are preserved in written transcripts, audio cassettes, beta videocassettes, audio compact discs, digital video discs and digital video cassettes. The interviewees reminisce about what it was like in Saginaw, Michigan for African Americans from 1920-1960. McKether investigates the reasons for the migration.

7.5 linear feet.

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General Motors Corporation. Central Foundry (Grey Iron)

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Saginaw Branch.

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International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (CIO)

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Peter J. Zanghi, a member of UAW Local 426, was elected first regional director of UAW Region 9 in 1939. From the description of Credential to the fifth convention, 1940 July 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 40641494 ...

McKether, Willie L.

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Willie McKether received his B.A. in economics from Grand Valley State University in 1984, his M.B.A. from Saginaw Valley State University in 1991 and his M.A. in Industrial Relations from Wayne State University. He received his Ph. D. in anthropology from Wayne State University in 2005. He serves as associate director of the Douglas A. Fraser Center for Workplace issues at Wayne State University and is an adjunct instructor in the Department of Antrhopology at Wayne State University. ...