| Title: |
Herbert Ward
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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| Collection: |
Labor History: Desegregating Unions during WWII
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| Description: |
Herbert Ward came from a union background, with family members who were in the Jim Crow longshore union in the Gulf Coast of Texas in the 1920s and 1930s. He came to Los Angeles as a young man, seeking better educational opportunities, but after a brief period at UCLA ended up working on the railroad as a porter and cooks helper until he became involved with the Urban League training program at Lockheed-Vega in Burbank. He joined the IAM, District Lodge 727, and founded the ""Yea Vote Committee,"" which fought to overturn the exclusionary clause in the IAM's constitution.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Speaker: |
Ward, Herbert
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Texas; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
Black
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| Speaker occupation: |
Labor union official
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Organizations discussed: |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Baltimore, MD; University of California, Los Angeles, CA
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| Locations discussed: |
California; Los Angeles, CA; North America; Texas; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
African American labor union members; African American men--Employment; African Americans--Education; African Americans--Employment; California; Labor unions--Officials and employees; Los Angeles, CA; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Baltimore, MD; North America; Oral history; Texas; United States; University of California, Los Angeles, CA
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| ASP release: |
2007-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0035161-38729
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