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Interview of workers organizing against Capwell's Department Store Interview of workers organizing against Capwell's Department Store
Date: 11/2/1976Call Number: KP 215Format: Cass A & BCollection: General materials
Rosalie Jones, Alice Stanford, and George Edward Junior speak of gaining community support for their lawsuit against Capwell's Department Store and The Culinary Union, Local 28. After experiencing racism and sexism, the two women went to their union for support but were denied. Managers and union representatives began threatening the two women and their families to suppress the development of their suit.
We Are America's Children; Songs, Rhythms and Moods Reflecting Our Peoples' History: Ella Jenkins We Are America's Children; Songs, Rhythms and Moods Reflecting Our Peoples' History: Ella Jenkins
Date: 1/1/1976Call Number: Vin 075Format: VinylProducers: Folkways RecordsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
In celebration of the bicentennial of the US, Ella Jenkens collaborated with the Raymond School Children's Choir and the Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus of New Orleans. They recorded songs about America's values, such as integrity, freedom, justice, and equality, and songs that reflect the people and history of the US.
Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race
Author: Theodore William AllenPublisher: New England Free PressYear: 1976Format: MonographCollection: Various Black Liberation Movement Publications
A treatment of racial slavery as a response to class struggle and of the consequences for the entire working class. This article is a slightly expanded form of a talk originally presented February 23, 1974 at the New Haven meeting of the Union of Radical Political Economists. It appeared in Radical America, May-June, 1975, Volume 9, Number 3.
The Black Voice The Black Voice
Publisher: United Black WorkersYear: 1976Volume Number: Vol. 6-2Format: PeriodicalCollection: The Black Voice
The Black Voice The Black Voice
Publisher: United Black WorkersYear: 1976Volume Number: Vol. 6-2Format: PeriodicalCollection: Various Black Liberation Movement Publications
200 Years of Oppression is Enough 200 Years of Oppression is Enough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1976Format: StatementCollection: Prarie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC)
Statement about the July 4th coalition intended to challenge the bi-centennial in 1976.
A Single Spark: Internal Newsletter of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee A Single Spark: Internal Newsletter of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeDate: 5/1976Volume Number: MayFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prarie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC)
In this Issue: The main thrust of this issue of the newsletter is rectification. It contains a political history of the two line struggle in the organization, self-criticisms from National Committee members who take main responsibility for leading in the incorrect line; evaluations of the process of rectification in the chapters. There are three articles dealing with programmatic thrust and work that members of the organization are involved in; articles concerning the struggle against sexism in the organization, Juky 4th, and a leaftlet written by the Boston chapter addressing the situation in that city.
A Single Spark: Newsletter of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee A Single Spark: Newsletter of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1976Volume Number: FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prarie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC)
In this Issue: The White Oppressor Nation; The National Question: Some Recent Positions; Rectification and PFOC's Analysis of July 4th; July 4th: National Evaluation; July 4th: New York Chapter; Rectification in Boston: The Anti-Racism Committee; A Report on the Native American Treaty Conference.