Reminiscences of David White, 1986

Biographical Note

Labor leader, civil rights worker

Scope and Contents

Family background, childhood in Alexandria, VA and Jersey City, NJ; father's involvement with radical and black national politics; work with the Communist Party in New Jersey; problems during the McCarthy era; attendance at School of Marxist Studies, New York; work as a practical nurse; participation and leadership in District 1199 National Hospital and Health Care Employee's Union: 1969 Charleston, SC hospital strike, hospital organizing in New York, NY; controversies in the Hospital Workers Union in the late 1970s and early 1980s; impressions of Doris Turner and Leon Davis

Subjects

• Civil rights--United States.
• Communist Party of the United States of America.
• Hospitals--Employees--Labor unions.
• Internal security--United States.
• Interviews.
• Labor unions--Officials and employees.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Sanders, Robert, interviewer.
• White, David, 1917-2000--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1986