Labor unions -- Social aspects
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Albors Photographic Collection
The collection consists of 86 photos depicting different labor groups participating in the Puerto Rican Day Parade from 1963-1973.
Kathy Andrade Papers
Edgar de Jesús Papers
Edgar de Jesús was a union member and organizer and former member of the Young Lords. The collection measures 0.4 cubic feet and consists of newsletters, biographies and reports. It spans the years 1970-2001 and is concerned mainly with activities in the New York metropolitan area.
Francisco López Cruz, Interview Five, 1988-12-15
Francisco López Cruz, Interview Four, 1988-12-15
Francisco López Cruz, Interview One, 1988-12-06
Francisco López Cruz, Interview Three, 1988-12-06
Francisco López Cruz, Interview Two, 1988-12-06
Ruth Glasser Puerto Rican Music Oral History Collection
This collection consists of 40 audiocassettes containing interviews with 28 interviewees conducted by Glasser while writing her book/ dissertation, My Music is My Flag. The collection contains interviews of prominent Puerto Rican musicians, composers, music store owners, and their relatives. The interviews date from 1988 to 1993.
José López Papers
Dennis Rivera Papers
Rivera was a labor leader, former president of New York's largest health care union, 1199 S.E.I.U. United Healthcare Workers East, and former chairman of the million-member health-care division of the Service Employees International Union. The collections include Rivera’s writings, photographs and negatives documenting his personal and professional lives, artifacts and bound volumes of 1199 News.
About the Collections
Our collections consist of personal papers from prominent Puerto Rican artists, elected officials, social activists, writers, as well as the records of community-based organizations. Our largest collection, the Offices of the Government of Puerto Rico in the United States (OGPRUS) Records, measures approximately 2,900 cubic feet and contains an extraordinary amount of information regarding Puerto Rican migrants and the government institutions established to assist them. The collections date from the 1890s to the present, and document Puerto Rican communities in the Northeast, Midwest, Florida, California and Hawaii.