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Willie Campbell, an African American, discusses his career as a UAW production worker and skilled trades millwright at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI

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Campbell, Willie

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Willie recounts his youth in Mississippi, his service in the U.S. Army in Korea, and being hired at Fisher in December 1954. He describes the jobs blacks were placed on, discrimination, and being denied an apprenticeship. He comments on millwright work, family, neighborhood, and retirement.
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Fleming, MichaelNicholson, EarlSmith, JerriJudy, GaryUnited Auto Workers Local 602/General Motors Oral History ProjectVincent Voice Library
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Keywords

  1. African American Automobile Industry Workers
  2. African American Labor Union Members
  3. African Americans
  4. Campbell, Willie
  5. Career In Automobile Industry And Trade
  6. Childhood And Youth
  7. Discrimination
  8. Discrimination In Employment
  9. Family
  10. Interviews
  11. Korean War, 1950 1953
  12. Milling (Metal Work)
  13. Neighborhoods
  14. Personal Narratives, American
  15. Retirement

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