| Title: |
Helen Robello
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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: |
Long Beach Area History: Terminal Island Issei/Nisei
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| Description: |
Helen Robello was born in Montana and moved with her family to California in 1920. She is among the few Anglo Europeans who lived on Terminal Island. She worked in a cannery alongside the Issei and Nisei women, 1929 to the early 1930s, and was involved in the cannery workers union. She also was an organizer for the longshoreman, first in San Pedro and later in Hawaii.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Speaker: |
Robello, Helen
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Cannery worker; Union organizer
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Locations discussed: |
California; North America; Terminal Island, CA; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
California; Canneries--United States; Cannery workers; Labor unions--Organizing; Labor unions--United States; North America; Oral history; Terminal Island (Calif.)--History; Terminal Island, CA; United States
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| ASP release: |
2007-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0035262-38830
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