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Oral history interview with Lillian Roberts, June 29, 1983.
- Title
- Oral history interview with Lillian Roberts, June 29, 1983.
- Author
- Roberts, Lillian
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Disc 1 | Moving image | Use in library | Sc Visual DVD-1515 Disc 1 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Disc 2 | Moving image | Use in library | Sc Visual DVD-1515 Disc 2 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Disc 3 | Moving image | Use in library | Sc Visual DVD-1515 Disc 3 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Disc 4 | Moving image | Use in library | Sc Visual DVD-1515 Disc 4 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Moving image | Use in library | Sc Visual VRA-938 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
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- Description
- 4 videodiscs (93 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Lillian Roberts discusses her early personal life and her career path from nurses' aide to labor leader. Topics covered include: growing up on the South Side of Chicago and being dependent on public welfare; the awakening of black consciousness ; scholarship to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1945); her marriage to William Roberts (1948); a work grievance that led to her election as shop steward for the hospital workers' union, AFSCME; her work with Victor Gotbaum, president of AFSCME District Council 37, and her rise in the union hierarchy. She also discusses the conflict between her commitment to the union and her home life.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Oral history.
- Oral histories.
- Note
- Interview conduced by Joseph Wilson, June 29, 1983 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York.
- System Details (note)
- DVD, NTSC
- Terms of Use (note)
- Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce; contact repository for information.
- Biography (note)
- Labor leader Lillian Roberts was born on January 2, 1928, on Chicago's South Side, she was the first African American to hold a nurses' aide position in Chicago's Lying-In Hospital. She went on to hold a number of labor leadership positions, including Associate Director of District Council 37, AFSCME, in New York City and State Industrial Commissioner of New York.
- Call Number
- Sc Visual DVD-1515
- OCLC
- 36736996
- Author
- Roberts, Lillian, interviewee.
- Title
- Oral history interview with Lillian Roberts, June 29, 1983.
- Biography
- Labor leader Lillian Roberts was born on January 2, 1928, on Chicago's South Side, she was the first African American to hold a nurses' aide position in Chicago's Lying-In Hospital. She went on to hold a number of labor leadership positions, including Associate Director of District Council 37, AFSCME, in New York City and State Industrial Commissioner of New York.
- Terms Of Use
- Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce; contact repository for information.
- System Details
- DVD, NTSC
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Wilson, Joseph, interviewer.Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Oral History Video Documentation Program.Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Visual DVD-1515Sc Visual VRA-938 VHSSc Visual VRB-2017 U-matic