| Title: |
Walter Williams
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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: |
Walter Williams, a leading civil rights activist in the CIO and prominent member of the Negro Victory Committee, was born in the 1920s into a poor Black family. He began working in the LA produce district at the age of 13. In 1939, he joined the Teamsters Union, Local 630, but soon lost his job because of discriminatory practices. He later worked at Magnus Brass and Lead, where he led an organizing drive for the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (CIO). He then went to work at the shipyards, and became the chairman of the Committee for Equal Participation, the group that led the boycott and legal action against the Boilermakers Jim Crow Auxiliary 35.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Speaker: |
Williams, Walter, 1925(?)-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1925
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| Speaker race: |
Black
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| Speaker occupation: |
Activist; Labor leader
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Organizations discussed: |
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
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| Locations discussed: |
North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
African American civil rights workers; African American labor union members; Civil rights--United States; International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers; Labor unions--Officials and employees; Labor unions--Organizing; Labor unions--United States; North America; Oral history; Political activists; United States
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| ASP release: |
2007-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0035162-38730
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