Project ACORN
- Date
1969
- Main contributor
Gordon Newsfilms
- Summary
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Documentary film telling the story of a union-sponsored middle and low-income urban renewal housing project in Oakland, California, in which both the building crew and occupants were integrated. Workers from minority groups comprised over 50 percent of the construction force and many subcontractors were from minority groups.
- Publisher
Alameda Building and Construction Trades
- Subjects
Labor unions; Integration; Minority labor union members; Working class in motion pictures; Housing; Labor union locals
- Locations
California; Oakland
- Collection
Labor
- Unit
Special Collections and University Archives
- Language
English
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Undetermined
- Terms of Use
Collection may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the University of Maryland Libraries at http://www.lib.umd.edu/special/contact/home.
- Physical Description
film reels
- Notes
2014-001-RG97-003
403-1
AR1985-0195
This material was digitized as part of the "Advancing Workers Rights in the American South: Digitizing the Records of the AFL-CIO’s Civil Rights Division" project, supported by a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from the Mellon Foundation.
- Other Identifiers
Filename: labor-086906; Catalog Key: 31430059608523
Access Restrictions
This item is accessible by: the public.