Reminiscences of Lester B. Granger : oral history, 1961.

Biographical Note

Social worker

Scope and Contents

Background and education; experiences as a Black soldier in World War I; early encounters with discrimination and segregation; extension work, counselling, social work; Urban League, studies of employment structure and placement facilities; racial questions in labor unions; National Negro Congress; segregation in armed forces; community relations projects; approaches to leaders of industry; American Association of Social Work; international conferences; Black people in international relations; Congress of Racial Equality; sit-in movements; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Black nationalism; new African leadership; federal record on equal rights in employment

Subjects

• African Americans--Civil rights.
• African Americans--Employment.
• African Americans--Segregation.
• Congress of Racial Equality.
• Edwin, Ed, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Granger, Lester B. (Lester Blackwell), 1896-1976.
• Ingersoll, William T., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
• National Urban League.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Social workers--Interviews.
• United States--Armed Forces--African Americans.
• United States--Race relations.