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Aurolyn Rush oral history
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Identifier: larc-oh-rush
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Sound recording of interview with UNITE HERE Local 2 member Aurolyn Rush conducted by Corey Datz-Greenberg. This recording is part of an oral history project documenting the historic 2004 hotel strike and lock-out in San Francisco that lasted 53 days. The struggle pitted a largely immigrant workforce against multi-national corporations which was part of a larger nationally coordinated contract campaign. Rush worked as a telephone operator at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco and served as a...
Dates:
2008 December 30
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
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
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
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
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
David Selvin oral history
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Identifier: larc-oh-selvin
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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
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
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
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Stan Smith oral history
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Identifier: larc-oh-smith
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Sound recording of interview with glazier and former Secretary Treasurer of the San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council, Stan Smith, conducted by Harvey Schwartz.
Dates:
2010 September 23
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
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
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
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
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Jean-Margaret Strauss oral history
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Identifier: larc-oh-strauss
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Sound recording and transcription of interview with one of the first female sheet metal workers in the Bay Area, Jean-Margaret Strauss, conducted by Judith Beck. In her oral history, Strauss describes the discrimination and obstacles she faced as a female tradeswoman, the skills and experiences she gained on the job, and her relationship with the Sheet Metal Workers Local 104.
Dates:
December 13, 2013
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Jim Taylor oral history
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Identifier: larc-oh-taylor
Abstract
Sound recording of interview with UNITE HERE Local 2 member Jim Taylor. This recording is part of an oral history project documenting the historic 2004 hotel strike and lock-out in San Francisco that lasted 53 days. The struggle pitted a largely immigrant workforce against multi-national corporations which was part of a larger nationally coordinated contract campaign. Taylor served as a banquet bartender at the Palace and Hilton hotels. In his interview, Taylor describes his experience as a...
Dates:
2009 January 30
Found in:
Labor Archives and Research Center
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