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Interview no. | E-0207 |
Restrictions | Interviews may not be published, quoted, or broadcast without permission of Mike Honey until 10 March 2020. |
Project | E.6. Labor: Michael Honey Collection on Southern Labor History |
Project description | Interviews conducted by Michael Honey, 1981-1998, as part of research focusing on the relationship between labor organizing and the civil rights movement in Memphis, Tenn., and elsewhere in the South, 1930s-1980s. Interviewees, African American and white, were workers at the Memphis Firestone plant or life-long social justice and labor activists. The interviews were used to produce Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers (1993) and Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle (2002). |
Date | 1983 |
Interviewee | Dickenson, Forrest M. |
Interviewee occupation | Businesspeople |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Honey, Michael K. |
Abstract | This interview with Forrest M Dickenson in 1983 was conducted by Michael K. Honey, Ph.D. as part of his research on Southern labor history, which contributed to his books, Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers (1993), Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle (1999), and Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign (2007). Dickenson was an International Woodworkers Union business agent. |
Citation | Interview with Forrest M. Dickenson by Mike Honey, 1983 E-0207, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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