liberal journalist on the air and on the waterfront
Subtitle: labor and political issues, 1932-1990
By: Sidney Roger ; with an introduction by Jessica Mitford. Interviews conducted by Julie Shearer in 1989 and 1990. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Mitford, Jessica, 1917-1996.; Shearer, Julie Gordon.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1998
Subjects: Bridges, Harry, 1901-; Hall, Jack, 1914-; Wallace, Henry Agard, 1888-1965; Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976; Du Bois, W. E. B. 1868-1963; Lewis, John Llewellyn, 1880-1969; Lattimore, Owen, 1900-1989; Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005; International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union; International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities; Jewish journalists -- Interviews; Journalists -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Interviews; Labor -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.); Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Other titles: International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union Oral history series.
Description: Russian socialist Jewish family background; Los Angeles boyhood; mother's medical practice; education, UC Berkeley; theater acting; news broadcasting: Office of War Information (World War II), KGO, KPFA and others; UN Conference on International Relations, 1945; VFW race policies; Tenney Committee, 1947; Henry Wallace campaign, 1948; waterfront strikes, 1948, 1971; International Longshoreman's and Warehouseman's Union (ILWU): leaders (Harry R. Bridges, Louis Goldblatt, Jack Hall), policies on race and gender discrimination, Japanese-American internees, Vietnam war, overseas delegations; Taft-Hartley affidavit; Harry Bridges trials; House Un-American Activities Committee; longshore workers: race, ethnicity, work culture; M & M Agreement, 1963; Teamsters Union; United Farm Workers; editing ILWU Dispatcher; UROC; Rosenberg case; Salt of the Earth; UC Berkeley: Free Speech Movement, Loyalty Oath, teaching; marriages; travel; American Workers Abroad and Democracy at Sea; memories of leaders in politics, labor, civil liberties, civil rights, and the arts, such as Haakon Chevalier, W.E.B. Du Bois, Eric Hoffer, Dolores Huerta, Owen Lattimore, John L. Lewis, Rosa Parks, Paul Robeson.