Reminiscences of F. Palmer Weber, 1985

Biographical Note

Civil rights activist

Scope and Contents

Family background and southern cultural heritage; student activist at University of Virginia; union organizer; study of destitute migration; national defense and mobilization of labor for war production; abolition of poll tax; Washington political scene; internal struggles of Congress of Industrial Organization's Political Action Committee; black voting rights; 1948 presidential campaign; marketing analyst on Wall Street; setting up Emergency Civil Liberties Committee; involvement of Wall Street in Vietnam War

Subjects

• African Americans--Civil rights.
• Capitalists and financiers--Interviews.
• Civil rights--United States.
• Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)
• Financial institutions.
• Interviews.
• Labor mobility.
• Labor unions--Officials and employees.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Skotnes, Andor, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1953.
• Weber, Frederick Palmer, 1914-1986--Interviews.

Access Conditions

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