Showing Collections: 1 - 4 of 4
Edith Van Horn Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP001698
Abstract
Labor and women’s rights activist Edith Van Horn began her career in the labor movement during World War II, when she left graduate school to join the war effort as an assembly line laborer for Goodyear Aircraft, where she joined United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 856. Ms. Horn later held posts as chief steward of Douglas Aircraft UAW Local 17, chief steward of Chrysler’s Dodge Main Local 3, where she was the first woman to serve on Local 3’s executive board, as a delegate to the UAW...
Dates:
1939 - 1997; Majority of material found within 1952 - 1990
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
UAW Fair Practices and Anti-Discrimination Department Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000637
Abstract
Subjects include: African-American workers; anti-Semitism; civil rights; community action programs; CIO state councils; race relations; Democratic Party; Detroit Revolutionary Union Movements; employment discrimination; Sunnyhills Housing Cooperative; Ku Klux Klan; Mexican Americans; gender discrimination; women's rights; United Steelworkers of America; sharecroppers; skilled trades; school desegregation
Note: Box 13 is unavailable.
Note: Box 13 is unavailable.
Dates:
1940 - 1980
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
UAW Region 9 Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000283
Abstract
Subjects include: auto industry and auto workers in New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania and upstate New York; Martin Gerber; equal employment opportunity; low-cost public housing; Bell Aircraft strike (1949); Kohler strike (1959); Liberal Party (N.Y.); New Jersey politics and government; civil rights movement; labor education; UAW CAP; women auto workers.
Dates:
1941 - 1985
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Urban Environment Conference (UEC) Records
Collection
Identifier: LR001179
Abstract
The Urban Environment Conference (UEC) grew out of an effort in 1971 by Michigan Senator Philip Hart to provide a forum for the discussion of problems and issues of joint concern to urban reform groups, environmentalists, and organized labor. Within a year, most of the participants decided to organize the group as a non-profit corporation with both advocacy and clearinghouse functions, including lobbying, education and publicity, fundraising, leadership training, technical assistance on program...
Dates:
1971 - 1989
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Civil rights 3
- Women in the labor movement 3
- Labor unions 2
- Women 2
- African American labor leaders 1
- African American labor union members 1
- African Americans 1
- African Americans -- History 1
- Air quality 1
- Automobile industry and trade 1
- Detroit (Mich.) 1
- Detroit (Mich.) -- Race relations 1
- Detroit -- social conditions 1
- Environmental justice 1
- Environmental policy 1
- Environmentalism 1
- Equal rights amendments 1
- Labor laws and legislation 1
- Politics, Practical 1
- Pollution 1
- Reproductive rights 1
- Social history 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- Water quality 1
- Women's rights 1
- Work environment 1 ∧ view less
- Names
- International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America 2
- Coalition of Labor Union Women (U.S.) 1
- Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) 1
- Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
- International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Region 9 1
∨ view more