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| Date: | 09 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The 6th Ward Contingent represented a community on the march. Black men, women and children from the CIO and AF of L, from small business, brought a messa... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | UPWA (United Packinghouse Workers of America) delegates at 1957 convention with Herbert Hill. From left to right are Ollie Webb, Richard Miller, Charles Ha... |
| Date: | 12 1978 |
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| Description: | Addie Wyatt, of the United Packinghouse Worker's Association, is shown seated at a desk speaking during the Merger Talks. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Midge Miller of Madison talking with an unidentified supporter of Eugene McCarthy at the Democratic Convention. Listening intently to their conversation is... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | An employee of the Chase Bag company, who was also a member of the Amagalamted Meatcutters and Butcherworkers of North America, stitches at a sewing machin... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by u... |
| Date: | 05 1948 |
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| Description: | On a Baltimore street corner, Howard Burmeister and Margaret Boyd of United Packinghouse Workers Local 392, distributes a leaflet on the plight of striking... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Russell Lasley, an African-american leader of the United Packinghouse Workers union and later the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union, meetin... |
| Date: | 09 09 1956 |
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| Description: | Striking members of Amalgamated Meatcutters Local 28 picketing at the Swift and Company plant in Chicago. |
| Date: | 07 1945 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin School for Workers, group of students and teacher standing, looking at bulletin board with list of classes/topics. In 1945 the U... |
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| Description: | Highlander Folk School instructor Estelle Thompson showing leaflet-making and stencil cutting at CIO school. |
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| Description: | Smelter Workers posing, singing together at Highlander Folk School. A woman holding a camera is taking a picture of them. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Food, Tobacco and Agriculture Workers session at Highlander. Connie Anderson, Educational Director for the organization, is standing in the center. |
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| Description: | Bernice Williams working with a younger CIO member on a sewing machine at the South Carolina Citizenship group. |
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| Description: | Farmers Union baseball game at Highlander Folk School. |
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| Description: | Striking packinghouse workers on a picket line at an unidentified locality. Sign on side of building reads, "W & W Pickle Co." |
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| Description: | A young woman teaching a labor class at Highlander Folk School. |
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| Description: | Strike of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 227 against a Winn-Dixie grocery store. Identified among the picketers are Rev. Charles... |
| Date: | 1991 |
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| Description: | Willie Rudd, president of the United Furniture Workers Local 282 as well as the national union, at a SOC (Southern Organizing Committee) labor conference i... |
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