Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews…
AFT-sponsored series of interviews with leading figures in the union. Topics discussed include the rise of the militant teacher, early collective bargaining and strikes, AFT political structure, Shanker vs. Selden fight and Oceanhill-Brownsville.
Renee Devine was a steward and vice president of the higher education chapter of District 925, then local president briefly. She is a manager of the cardiac lab at the University of Washington Medical School.
Renee Holbrook is a mechanic with the National Conference of Firemen and Oilers Local 1219 under SEIU. Holbrook was born raised in Owosso, MI and attended technical school at Universal Technical Institute in Illinois and completed a certificate…
The Reverend Charles Hill was the late pastor of the Hartford Ave Baptist Church in Detroit. This interview recalls his involvement with the Ford Motor Co. and the black church, the Ford Organizing Drive and the role blacks in the unions. Reverend…
Interviews conducted between 1979-1982 related to the establishment and growth of the Migrant Ministry. Transcripts located in Boxes 2-3 of the Sydney D. Smith Collection.