General note From the Series:

Note: See Series IX: Pamphlets for additional material on some of the subject files listed below.

Scope and Content of the Series From the Series: Mike H. Ross, after being injured during World War II, came back to the United States, where he was stationed in several army bases to convalesce. These included Fort Dix, New Jersey and Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. Ross also spent some time in New Orleans, Louisiana after the war, and was in North Carolina during the late 1940s and early 1950s. During this time, Ross began doing research for a history on the populist movement in the south. Much of his research consisted of news clippings,...

General note From the Series:

Note: See Series IX: Pamphlets for additional material on some of the subject files listed below.

Scope and Content of the Series From the Series: During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...

Scope and Content of the Series From the Series: During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...

Scope and Content of the Series From the Series: The labor files include files from Jacobs's law firm that cover pensions, as well as a few trial cases for local unions such as the iron workers and asbestos workers. Other topics included in this series are the Southern Labor Archives, United Textile Workers, Uprising of '34, the AFL-CIO Labor Lawyers conferences, and conference proceedings of the United Hatters, Cap, and Millinery Workers International Union. Included in the Labor Files are photocopied news articles from Jacobs's...

Scope and Content of the Series From the Series: During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...

Scope and Content of the Series During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...

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The publications consist of booklets and pamphlets relating to the Textile Workers Union, Operation Dixie and other union literature.

Scope and Content of the Series Series VII:Subject Files, 1940, 1946-1974, contains correspondence and other materials which did not fall within the other series. Of particular interest is material regarding the 1959 assault against Robert Beame, an American Federation of Hosiery Workers representative who was organizing the Franklin [North Carolina] Hosiery Mill (a subsidiary of Burlington Mills, and four folders relating to the CIO Organizing Committee (Operation Dixie), 1946-1954, including correspondence from George...

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Interviewed by Peggy Bulger. Among topics discussed: Southern Conference For Human Welfare; CIO organizing; black and white student interaction; Southern Exposure; Operation Dixie and Highlander Folk Center; Frank Graham; Palmetto Country; Zora Neale Hurston; Zilphia Horton; role of folk music; legal attacks on Highlander; Woody Guthrie; Pete Seeger; Kennedy's problems with U.S. immigration officials; use of popular language; personal assessment of Kennedy; Alan Lomax.

Scope and Content of the Series By 1948, many working Americans had become dissatisfied with American ideas of economics and politics. They decided that they deserved better pay and wanted equality between the races (no more Jim Crow), more peaceful relations with the Soviet Union, and better living conditions all around. These people joined together to form a third party in the 1948 elections, the Progressive Party. Henry A. Wallace ran for president on this ticket, and Mike H. Ross ran for United States Congress in North...

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Peggy Bulger. Among topics discussed: Use of folklore for political ends; youth in Jacksonville, Florida; interest in folk speech; experience in newspaper business; training as a writer; early political influences and experiences; Great Depression; "back to the land" ideas; southern regionalism; Southern Conference for Human Welfare; political activism in college; Key West experiences and lifestyle; political education; exposure to Hispanic culture; Cuban community in Key...