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A liberal journalist on the air and on the waterfront : oral history transcript : labor and political issues, 1932-1990 /
1998.
Phonotape 2970 C:1-78; BANC MSS 99/73 c v.1; BANC MSS 99/73 c v.2; BANC MSS 99/73 c
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A liberal journalist on the air and on the waterfront : oral history transcript: labor and political issues, 1932-1990 / 1998International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union Oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Roger, Sydney, 1914-1994, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Mitford, Jessica, 1917-1996Creator/Contributor:
Shearer, Julie Gordon, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Russian socialist Jewish family background; Los Angeles boyhood; mother's medical practice; education, UC Berkeley; theater
acting; news broadcasting: Office of War Information (World War II), KGO, KPFA and others; UN Conference on International
Relations, 1945; VFW race policies; Tenney Committee, 1947; Henry Wallace campaign, 1948; waterfront strikes, 1948, 1971;
International Longshoreman's and Warehouseman's Union (ILWU): leaders (Harry R. Bridges, Louis Goldblatt, Jack Hall), policies
on race and gender discrimination, Japanese-American internees, Vietnam war, overseas delegations; Taft-Hartley affidavit;
Harry Bridges trials; House Un-American Activities Committee; longshore workers: race, ethnicity, work culture; M & M Agreement,
1963; Teamsters Union; United Farm Workers; editing ILWU Dispatcher; UROC; Rosenberg case; Salt of the Earth; UC Berkeley:
Free Speech Movement, Loyalty Oath, teaching; marriages; travel; American Workers Abroad and Democracy at Sea; memories of
leaders in politics, labor, civil liberties, civil rights, and the arts, such as Haakon Chevalier, W.E.B. Du Bois, Eric Hoffer,
Dolores Huerta, Owen Lattimore, John L. Lewis, Rosa Parks, Paul Robeson.
Date:
1998 (issued)Subject:
n-us--- -- n-us-caBridges, Harry -- 1901-1990
Hall, Jack -- 1914-
Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard) -- 1888-1965
Robeson, Paul -- 1898-1976
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) -- 1868-1963
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn) -- 1880-1969
Lattimore, Owen -- 1900-1989
Parks, Rosa -- 1913-2005
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union.
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America.
United States. -- Congress. -- House. -- Committee on Un-American Activities.
Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.)
United Nations Conference on International Organization (1945 : San Francisco, Calif.)
Jewish journalists -- Interviews
Journalists -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Interviews
Labor -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Note:
Sidney Roger ; with an introduction by Jessica Mitford. Interviews conducted by Julie Shearer in 1989 and 1990. Regional Oral
History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of: International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union Oral history series.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interview also available. Classified as Phonotape 2970 C:1-78.
Also available online.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Volume includes index.
Type:
biographyOral histories.
Physical Description:
print
2 v. : ill., port. ; 28 cm.
76 sound cassettes.
Language:
English
Identifier:
http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z3t9h
http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z3v02
Phonotape 2970 C:1-78
BANC MSS 99/73 c v.1
BANC MSS 99/73 c v.2
BANC MSS 99/73 c
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.