I Am Somebody

Duration: 30

Year Published: 1970

Creator: American Foundation of Non-Violence

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Documents the story of the successful hospital workers' strike of 1969 in Charleston, South Carolina, in order to form an AFL-CIO affiliated union. Uses some news film footage to show certain events during the strike and explains the problem from the point of view of the low-paid, black hospital workers. Interviews many of the persons involved and many of the national figures who came to their aid, including Ralph Abernathy (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), Leon David (Head of Local 1199, New York, Drug and Hospital Workers, AFL- CIO), Coretta King, and Bill Kircher (National official, AFL-CIO)., A documentary record of the 113-day strike by members of the National Union of Hospital and Nursing Home Employees in Charleston, South Carolina during the Spring of 1969. Explores the struggles of these low-paid, Black, and mostly female hospital workers to achieve economic justice, dignity and self-respect. Illustrates how organized labor and the civil rights movement succeeded in forging an effective coalition in the South.

Complete Record: Documents the story of the successful hospital workers' strike of 1969 in Charleston, South Carolina, in order to form an AFL-CIO affiliated union. Uses some news film footage to show certain events during the strike and explains the problem from the point of view of the low-paid, black hospital workers. Interviews many of the persons involved and many of the national figures who came to their aid, including Ralph Abernathy (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), Leon David (Head of Local 1199, New York, Drug and Hospital Workers, AFL- CIO), Coretta King, and Bill Kircher (National official, AFL-CIO)., A documentary record of the 113-day strike by members of the National Union of Hospital and Nursing Home Employees in Charleston, South Carolina during the Spring of 1969. Explores the struggles of these low-paid, Black, and mostly female hospital workers to achieve economic justice, dignity and self-respect. Illustrates how organized labor and the civil rights movement succeeded in forging an effective coalition in the South. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.