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The Journey Of Clarence L. Williams
Recorded
June 27, 2022
Archived
June 27, 2022
15:51 minutes
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Id:
APP3581161
Description
A brief biographical of the life of Clarence L. Williams as given by his daughter, C. L. Williamshttp://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/digital/
Georgia State University’s Southern Labor Archives
DigitalCollections Library
Participants
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C L Williams
Interview By
Keywords
- 1938 - 2014
- 2/3 new union members were women Union wages 14.6% higher than non-union in southeast
- 2002Georgia Legislative Black Caucus Honoree
- April 2000 Delegate to the Democratic National Convention
- Area Director UAW Atlanta 1990-2003
- army
- Atlanta
- Atlanta Area Technical School
- Booker T. Washington High
- busses
- Buy American
- church deacon
- Congressman John Lewis
- Cornell University School of Industrial Relations
- Cynthia L. Williams
- Digital Collections Library
- First African & Native American to ever serve in the capacity of Vice President of Local 882 from 1974-1976
- First job cutting grass
- GA
- Georgia
- Georgia State University
- Hidden history no more
- Indigenous
- International Representative for the United Auto Workers
- Jim Crow Laws
- Justice
- Justice for ALL Union Sister & Brotherhoods
- Justice for the working person
- King Center
- Labor
- Labor Movements
- LGBTQIA+ Power We ALL must seek to educate & get free
- LIVING WAGES NOT RIGHT TO WORK FOR LESS
- Local 882 Atlanta
- MD
- N.Y.
- NAACP
- Negotiating Contracts
- or NONE of us are free
- POC
- Racism
- Rebuke of Jim Crow Laws
- Refusal to sit in the back of the bus; the multitudes of problems of Jim Crow
- Southern Labor Archives
- Special Collections and Archives
- Spouse
- The George Meany Center for Labor Studies -Silver Springs
- UAW
- Union YES!
- Unions
- Veterans
- Vice President of Local 882
- Vice President of Local 882 from 1974-1976 being the first African American/Native man to ever serve in this capacity
- Well traveled
- Years of Service
- “Union Made”
People
Places
- African American/Native American
- AL
- Atlanta
- Atlanta Native
- DE
- Egyptian Ballroom
- FL
- Former janitorial staff
- Fulton county Atlanta
- ga
- Georgia
- Georgia State University
- germany
- Hapeville
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/digital/collection/labor/id/6955/
- KY
- Mays Hurst
- MD
- MS
- NC
- New York
- PA
- SC
- Silver Springs
- The Fabulous Fox Theater
- The Fox Theater Atlanta
- TN
- WV