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Donald Wharton oral history interview, December 5, 2011
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Identifier: WhartonD_L2012-15
Scope and Contents
Interviewed by Rachel Bernstein. Wharton discusses being born and raised in Ohio and his father's membership in the UE and then the IAM. He talks about leaving school early to get a job, having a negative union experience followed by a positive one. As a young union activists he tells how he was appointed an officer while 17. He also tells about union history, organizing experiences, the operation of the IAM in the Midwest, women in the union, IAM record on race and civil rights, Democratic...
Dates:
December 5, 2011