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.
As of November 2005, Ray Abernathy served as president of Abernathy Associates and performed strategic campaign communications work for the AFL-CIO. At that time, Denise Mitchell served as Director of Public Affairs for the AFL-CIO. Together, they…
Ray Hatcher was the Deputy Director of the Detroit Regional office of Housing and Urban Development Department. In this interview he describes his role with the Detroit Urban League in the early 1940’s, discrimination in housing and Sojourner Truth…
A series of interviews covering the United States government’s involvement in international labor affairs from the establishment of the State Department’s Labor Attaché program in 1943, includes correspondence.
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…
A series of interviews conducted between 1985 and 1998 with eighteen IEB members covering their UAW careers and important events in the history of the union. Some interviews may contain correspondence and releases. UAW logo die from the bindery is…