Tim Sampson oral history
Scope and Contents
Sound recording of interview with Tim Sampson conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Describes posts with Avalon-Carver Community Center, Los Angeles; Center for Community Development, Fresno; and National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO), Washington, D.C.; Administrative Director, NWRO, 1967-1970; analyzes techniques of successful community organizing; recalls Cesar Chavez, Saul Alinsky, and George A. Wiley; hired at SFSU, 1970; President California Faculty Association at San Francisco State University and important local and state faculty union leader, 1980s and 1990s.
Dates
- 1998 August 19
Creator
- Sampson, Timothy J. (Person)
Access
Collection is open for research.
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Biography
Community activist, champion of underdogs and labor rights; professor, Social Work, San Francisco State University.
Extent
7 audio cassettes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Sound recording of interview with Tim Sampson conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Describes posts with Avalon-Carver Community Center, Los Angeles; Center for Community Development, Fresno; and National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO), Washington, D.C.; Administrative Director, NWRO, 1967-1970; analyzes techniques of successful community organizing; recalls Cesar Chavez, Saul Alinsky, and George A. Wiley; hired at SFSU, 1970; President California Faculty Association at San Francisco State University and important local and state faculty union leader, 1980s and 1990s.
Additional collection guides
Acquisition Information
Interview conducted by Harvey Schwartz, 1998.
- Audiocassettes.
- California Faculty Association
- Community organization -- California.
- Labor leaders -- California -- Interviews.
- Labor unions -- California -- History.
- Oral histories.
- Political activists -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews.
- Political participation -- California.
- San Francisco State College -- Faculty -- Interviews.
- San Francisco State College -- Faculty -- Political activity.
- Schwartz, Harvey
- Teachers' unions -- California.
Creator
- Sampson, Timothy J. (Person)
- Title
- Tim Sampson Oral History
- Author
- Finding aid created by Labor Archives and Research Center staff.
- Date
- 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in: English.
Repository Details
Part of the Labor Archives and Research Center Repository
San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco 94132-1722 USA
(415) 405-5571
larc@sfsu.edu