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Julian F. Randolph oral history

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Identifier: larc-oh-randolph
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Sound recording of interview with Julian F. Randolph conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Describes his involvement in the San Francisco State Strike, the evolution of faculty unionism at San Francisco State University, his efforts on behalf of faculty rights as an Academic Senate representative and official, and key individuals responsible for the unification of the CFA after it had defeated the AFT as a collective bargaining agent for San Francisco State professors.

Dates: 2000 June 5

Dave Reed oral history

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Identifier: larc-oh-reed
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Sound recording of interview with Dave Reed conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Remembers boxing days, early 1930s; longshore work, 1933; witnessing S.F. police shooting workers during 1934 strike, being arrested for own union activity in 1934, meeting Henry Schmidt, Local 10 pioneer, and Harry Lundeberg, SUP leader; SUP schooner sailor, World War II; and Relief Business Agent, Local 10, ILWU, 1960.

Dates: 1995 April 18

Tim Sampson oral history

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Identifier: larc-oh-sampson
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...
Dates: 1998 August 19

John Sanchez oral history

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Identifier: larc-oh-sanchez
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Sound recording of interview with John Sanchez conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Former agricultural worker; recalls killing of unionists by growers in Pixley, California, during 1933 Central Valley cotton strike; describes harsh living and working conditions of Central Valley’s Mexican American cotton pickers, 1930s, and impact of mechanization, 1938-1941.

Dates: 1998 March 31

David Selvin oral history

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Identifier: larc-oh-selvin
Abstract Sound recording of interview with David Selvin conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Selvin's parents immigrated from Russia to Tooele, Utah in 1909, drawn by family ties to the Jewish agricultural community which had settled in the central part of that state. Selvin's father maintained a store in predominately Mormon township of Tooele and also served as a senator in the Utah state legislature. David moved to California to attend college, receiving his undergraduate degree in Commerce and Master's...
Dates: 2000 September 7

Joan-Marie Shelley oral history

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Identifier: larc-oh-shelley
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Sound recording of interview with Joan-Marie Shelley conducted by Adah Bakalinsky. Describes her involvement with school unions, 1955-1970, and her rise to become president of the United Educators of San Francisco in 1984; discusses her views on bilingual education, violence in schools, the California Teachers Association, and the American Federation of Teachers,, as well as the influence of her father, former San Francisco mayor John Francis Shelley; synoptic index available.

Dates: 1993 March 9-April 1

Eric Solomon oral history

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Identifier: larc-oh-solomon
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Sound recording of interview with Eric Solomon conducted by Peter Carroll. Describes SFSU in the 1960s as a "liberal teacher's dream" details his leadership of the SFSU faculty strike, its development, and its legacies.

Dates: 1992 February 7-March 13

Loretta Starvus Stack oral history

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Identifier: larc-oh-stack
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Sound recording of interview with Loretta Starvus Stack conducted by Lucille Kendall. Discusses working-class childhood in Willimantic, Connecticut; her time with the party; and imprisonment as one of Smith Act defendants in 1951. Discusses the conditions of being jailed with the other female defendants, the strategy of their legal defense, and her feelings of the Communist Party USA's New York leadership going "underground" after the Smith Act arrests.

Dates: 1986 July 22-November 21

Don Watson oral history

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Identifier: larc-oh-watson
Abstract Sound recording of interview with Don Watson conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Reviews work-life and activism in Marine Cooks and Stewards, CIO, late 1940s-early 1950s; and in ILWU, 1955-1993; remembers waterfront screening, McCarthy period; recalls Jimmy Herman and racial integration of Local 34, early 1960s; led ILWU efforts to aid California farm workers' union movement, 1960s-1970s; Secretary-Treasurer, Northern California District Council, ILWU, 1982-1993; co-founded Bay Area Labor History...
Dates: 1994 March 11-April 21

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