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Oral history interview with William Lucy

Title
Oral history interview with William Lucy / conducted by Joseph Wilson.
Author
Lucy, William, 1933-
Publication
New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1983.

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Additional Authors
  • Wilson, Joseph, 1951-
  • Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Description
1 videocassette (VHS) (24 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
Summary
Lucy talks about his career in AFSCME. Family environment; first involvement in union and various positions held; organizing drive of AFSCME in Memphis, 1968; relationship between labor and the civil rights movement; role and function as secretary-treasurer of AFSCME; reasons not selected to replace head of AFSCME in 1981; racial integration in union management positions.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Interviews.
  • Oral histories.
Event (note)
  • Recorded 1983 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Terms of Use (note)
  • Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
Biography (note)
  • William Lucy, labor leader, is secretary-treasurer of AFSCME and president of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists.
Call Number
Sc Visual VRB-1670, 1671
OCLC
26956127
Author
Lucy, William, 1933- Interviewee
Title
Oral history interview with William Lucy / conducted by Joseph Wilson.
Imprint
New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1983.
Event
Recorded 1983 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Terms Of Use
Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
Biography
William Lucy, labor leader, is secretary-treasurer of AFSCME and president of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists.
Local Note
Archival original: 2 videocassettes of 2 (U-matic) in Sc Visual VRB-1670,1671.
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Added Author
Wilson, Joseph, 1951- Interviewer
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Research Call Number
Sc Visual VRA-781
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