COMPOUND OBJECT (6 Items)
Discrimination is the Bosses Tool: Tacoma Longshore Unions and African Americans Item Info
- Title:
- Discrimination is the Bosses Tool: Tacoma Longshore Unions and African Americans
- Creator:
- George, Patricia
- Date Created:
- 2007
- Description:
- Retired longshoreman Roger Coleman describes the working environment at the Port of Tacoma during the 1960s and 1970s and comments on the racial attitudes and trends among workers. He also discusses the history of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and its local affiliate, Local 23.
- Subjects:
- African Americans Labor unions Tacoma 20th century Race relations Race discrimination
- Location:
- Port of Tacoma
- Latitude:
- 47.26548167123849
- Longitude:
- -122.41171556386986
- Source:
- Tacoma Community History Project
- Type:
- record
- Format:
- compound_object
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Discrimination is the Bosses Tool: Tacoma Longshore Unions and African Americans", Tacoma Community History Project, University of Washington Tacoma Library
- Reference Link:
- https://erika-b.github.io/tchp/items/chp200709.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Individuals may use project materials for scholarly or research purposes, according to the provisions of fair use, but reproducing, publishing, or broadcasting any oral history project materials requires permission. For more information, see http://content.lib.washington.edu/tacomacommweb/using-projects.html
- Standardized Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/