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Isaiah Bennett papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1056
Abstract
Isaiah Bennett (1926-2002) served as a union representative for tobacco workers at the American Tobacco Company's Cigar Factory and as a leader and negotiator of the Charleston Hospital Workers' Strike of 1969. Bennett also founded and was president of the Charleston chapter of the A. Phillip Randolph Institute, an umbrella organization for black trade unions.This collection contains five small series that pertain to the life and career of Isaiah Bennett. 1.)...
Dates:
1932-2002
Charleston Five collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1124
Abstract
The Charleston Five, Elijah Ford Jr., Ricky Simmons, Peter Washington, Jason Edgerton and Kenneth Jefferson were brought up on felony riot charges following a confrontation on the Charleston docks with law enforcement. The Charleston Five Collection contains correspondence, legal documents, financial documents, literary productions, printed materials and video material all pertaining to the published work of Suzan Erem and Paul Durrenberger. The collection is arranged into four series:...
Dates:
1921-2008; Majority of material found within 1998-2005
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- Subject: African American labor union members -- South Carolina -- Charleston X
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- African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Politics and government -- History -- 20th century 1
- DVDs 1
- Factories -- Employees -- Labor unions -- South Carolina 1
- Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 1
- Hospitals -- Employees -- Labor unions -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Labor movement -- United States -- History 1
- Police -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Police-community relations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Stevedores -- Labor unions -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Strikes and lockouts -- Stevedores -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Tobacco Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1945 1
- Tobacco workers -- Labor unions -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- compact discs 1
- correspondence 1
- drafts (documents) 1
- financial records 1
- interviews 1
- legal documents 1
- publications (documents) 1
- transcripts 1
- videocassettes 1 + ∧ less
- Language
- Dutch; Flemish 1
- Italian 1
- Names
- A. Philip Randolph Institute 1
- American Tobacco Company 1
- Bennett, Isaiah, 1926-2002 1
- Carter, Rosalynn 1
- Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943- 1
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