Labor

Scope and Contents The William Lombard papers contains correspondence, minutes, financial records, bank statements, constitutions, membership applications, collected printed items, and newspapers clippings related to the Longshoreman’s Protective Union Benevolent Association. It also includes photocopies of records of incorporation and liquidation, property transactions, and other matters pertaining to the early history of the union as well as three photographs of William Lombard. Of particular interest are...

Scope and Contents This collection includes printed broadsides, correspondence, newsletters, pamphlets, and collected material of New Orleans activists Elizabeth Cousins Rogers and Walter Rogers. Of interest is correspondence and materials related to Elizabeth Rogers and the Citizens Memorial Committee’s efforts to commemorate the contributions of the New Orleans Four, Ruby Bridges, Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, and Tessie Prevost, the 20th anniversary of New Orleans school desegregation event, and...

Content Description The papers of Merlin L. Taylor reflect his career in the building trades and as a labor official. Trained as a craftsman, Taylor served as President and Business Manager of the Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers International Union, Local No. 1, in Louisiana from 1962-1965. He then served in various capacities within the Manpower Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor before serving as Executive Director of the AFL-CIO’s Human Resources Development Institute from 1968 to 1970 and...

Content Description This collection contains the raw footage and interviews for the documentary Yes Ma'am: Household Domestic Workers in New Orleans, which was directed and produced by Gary Goldman and was sponsored by the Amistad Research Center. The film provides an in-depth look at the profession of domestic service, race relations, injustice, and the importance of religion in the lives of domestic workers. The old order is contrasted with the new, in which the more militant...

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This collections is made up of five audiocassette recordings of oral history interviews with civil rights activist Bob Zellner conducted by Eric Diner, then a Tulane University undergraduate, as part of Diner's honors thesis. Zellner, the first White field secretary from the south for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), has a long career in civil rights activism.