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Nursing Home Strikers' Benefit.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Misc Print Collection box 15 no 55
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nursing Home Strikers' Benefit Committee.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nursing Home Workers' Strike, Philadelphia, P.A., 1961.
- Strikes and lockouts--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--African Americans.
- Strikes and lockouts.
- Nursing homes--Labor unions--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Nursing homes.
- Women, Black--Labor unions--Organizing--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Women, Black.
- Labor disputes--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Labor disputes.
- Collective bargaining--Health facilities--United States.
- Collective bargaining.
- Benefit performances--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Benefit performances.
- Nursing homes--Employees.
- Genre:
- Fliers (Ephemera)
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 28 x 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia] : [Nursing Home Strikers' Benefit Committee], [1961]
- Notes:
- Flyer for a fundraising event at Tyree A.M.E. church in West Philadelphia, on behalf of striking African American workers employed by the Golden Years Home in Powelton Village. The committee organized to support the women included future Philadelphia Black Panther, William Crawford, as chairman. The event featured the Young Peoples Folk Chorus, folk singer Marianne "Jolly" Robinson, and The Shaders. The master of ceremonies was Rev. Robert Jackson.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2024 from D. Anthem, Bookseller.
- OCLC:
- 1532796194
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