Local 1199 Moe Foner Photographs
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Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs of Moe Foner, Leon Davis, Ossie and Ruby Dee Davis, others such as Coretta Scott King, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Photographs from strikes, union meetings, rallies, and miscellaneous.
Dates
- 1955
Creator
- National Union of Hospital and Nursing Home Employees (NUHHCE) (creator, Organization)
- Local 1199 Drug amd Hospital Union (creator, Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
As a local of the Drug, Hospital, and Health Care Employees Union, Local 1199 was founded by Leon J. Davis in 1932, to organize pharmacists in New York City. Nonprofessional hospital employees were organized starting in 1958.
Because of the large number of Black and Puerto Rican workers it sparked the first postware Civil Rights Movement. May 8, 1959 marks the start of approximately 3500 hospital workers striking against seven large private hospitals in New York City, the strike lasted forty-six days.
Professional and technical workes were added to the union in 1963, the same year they won the right to collective bargaining under provisions of the state's labor relations act. The union was granted the right to represent workers across the state in 1965. Registered nurses became part of the union in 1973.
In 1998 the union became part of SEIU and membership went up significantly.
Extent
1 cubic feet
Quantity:
1 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Photographs.
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, August 07, 2012
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, February 23, 2016
- Title
- Local 1199 Moe Foner Photographs
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- February 23, 2016
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository