Eikenberry, Eric
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Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Sandra Perrin interview, 2021-11-19
Item
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc032_06.mp3
Abstract
Please note this interview was recorded over Zoom. Sandra Perrin reflects on her experiences organizing and doing political work as part of the union that represented Metro workers. Her story begins with her childhood in Washington, D.C. Born to two working class parents, she developed a love of reading fueled by the bookmobile that would regularly visit her neighborhood. When her father died in a car accident, her mother became the wage earner. She speaks about her time at Howard...
Dates:
2021-11-19
Series 32: 1978 Metro Wildcat Strike, 2021
Series
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc032
Abstract
For six days in July of 1978, workers in D.C.’s Metro system brought the city to a halt. Angered by violence against bus drivers and their eroding real wages in an era of high inflation, Black and white workers united and walked off the job in defiance of management and the leadership of their own union. The 1978 wildcat strike helped guarantee that Metro would remain a source of family-sustaining jobs for Black working class Washingtonians. This project interviewed participants in the...
Dates:
2021
Series 48: District of Cats: The History of Back Alley Bicycle Racing, 2022 - 2023
Series
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc048
Abstract
From early spring to late autumn, dozens of cyclists meet for 'alleycats': unsanctioned scavenger hunts–turned–races sprung by daring local bike couriers onto D.C.'s unsuspecting streets. They make for exhilarating spectacles and welcoming, if temporary, multiracial, multigender, and cross-class communities. They have also persisted through, and grown alongside, shifting economic pressures on bike couriers, waves of gentrification that have made D.C. wealthier and whiter, the growth of the...
Dates:
2022 - 2023
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- Labor movement 7
- Local transit 7
- Strikes and lockouts 7
- Amalgamated Transit Union 6
- Bicycle messengers 6
- Employee rights 6
- Racing 6
- Wildcat strikes 6
- 16th Street Heights (Washington, D.C.) 4
- Labor unions 4
- Langdon (Washington, D.C.) 4
- Segregation 4
- Solidarity 4
- Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority 4
- Working class 4
- Friendship Heights (Washington, D.C.) 3
- Navy Yard (Washington, D.C.) 3
- Petworth (Washington, D.C.) 3
- Park View (Washington, D.C.) 2
- 14th Street (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Adams Morgan (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Atlas District (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Black Workers Movement 1
- Carver Langston (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Catholic Church 1
- Community activists 1
- Downtown (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Dupont Circle (Washington, D.C.) 1
- H Street Corridor (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Howard University 1
- Kingman Park (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Massachusetts Heights (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Noma/Sursum Corda (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Orangeburg Massacre, Orangeburg, S.C., 1968 1
- Pleasant Plains (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Progressive Labor Party 1
- Shaw (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Socialism 1
- Student movements 1
- Truxton Circle (Washington, D.C.) 1 + ∧ less
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