The HistoryMakers video oral history with William Lucy.
| Format | Video (Streaming) |
| Publication | Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]. |
| Description | 1 online resource (16 video files (7 hr., 46 min., 38 sec.)) : sound, color. |
| Supplemental Content | https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2008.001 |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Lucy, William, 1933- interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Butler, Cheryl B. (Cheryl Blanche), 1967- interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Hickey, Matthew, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
| Variant title | History Makers video oral history with William Lucy |
| Portion of title | William Lucy |
| Abstract | Civil rights and labor activist William Lucy was born on November 26, 1933 in Memphis, Tennessee. He studied civil engineering at University of California at Berkeley in the early 1950s. Lucy began his career in labor organizing as a member of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1675 in 1956. He was elected its president in 1965. In 1966, Lucy went to Washington, D.C. to work full time for AFSCME's national office as associate director of the legislation and community affairs departments. Lucy worked on the Memphis sanitation workers' strike in 1968. Lucy co-founded the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) to ensure African Americans a voice in labor. In 1984, he joined the Free South Africa Movement, a grassroots campaign that sparked widespread opposition to apartheid in South Africa. In 1994, Lucy became president of Public Services International, the world's largest union federation. |
| Credits | Videographer, Matthew Hickey. |
| Performer | Cheryl Butler, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2008 January 29. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2012 May 1. |
| Source of description | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Stock number | A2008.001 HistoryMakers |