| Title: |
Lonnie Nelson
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
University of Washington. Library. Special Collections
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| Collection: |
Communist Party Oral History Interviews
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| Description: |
Lonnie Nelson was born in Seattle. Her father, Burt Nelson, was a Party member and had helped organize the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union in the 1930s. Lonnie joined the Party in 1951 and has been active ever since. She details her involvement with many different issues and causes, especially civil rights and Indian rights struggles, Central District organizing, the Coalition for the Defense of the Rights of the Black Panther Party, the Coalition of Labor Union Women, and Mothers for Police Accountability.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Video: |
[Video available]
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| Speaker: |
Nelson, Lonnie
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Seattle, WA; Washington; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Interviewer: |
Black, Gordon; Grijalva, Brian
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| Organizations discussed: |
Communist Party U.S.A.
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| Locations discussed: |
North America; United States; Washington
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Communism; Communist parties; Communist Party U.S.A.; Communist party work; Communists--United States; North America; Oral history; United States; Washington
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0025976-27918
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