AFL-CIO Office of the General Counsel, Lawyers Coordinating Committee Oral History Project records
Collection
0024-LBR-RG5-001
The Lawyers Coordinating Committee (LCC) is an allied group of the AFL-CIO. The LCC initiated this oral history project to document the contributions of labor lawyers to 20th century American unionism. This collection currently consists of six interview transcripts, with the expectation that more interviews will be added.
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6 Folders
This ongoing collection consists of transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee. The project's goal is to capture the insights, experiences, and stories of lawyers who have played seminal roles in the life of the labor and civil rights movements around the country over the past several decades.
Information about the history and purpose of this collection is available in the external document below.
The folders are not arranged either alphabetically or chronologically.
The records comprising this collection were transferred to the George Meany Memorial Archives by the AFL-CIO Office of the General Counsel in 2008 and 2009. The George Meany Memorial Archives transferred these records as part of a major transfer of their archive and library holdings to the University of Maryland Libraries in 2013.
Archives staff at the George Meany Memorial Archives initially processed these records between 2009 and 2013. The University of Maryland Libraries received the records and the finding aid in 2013. In 2017, Bria Parker exported and cleaned the finding aid contents from the Eloquent Systems database using OpenRefine, and finally transformed the finding aids into Encoded Archival Description (EAD) using a series of programmatic scripts. The finding aid was ingested into ArchivesSpace in 2017, at which point Jennifer Eidson updated the descriptive content for accuracy. Revisions include changes to biographical/historical notes, scope and content notes, and the creation of new collection numbers. Jennifer Eidson also enhanced custodial histories and re-wrote collection titles to better conform to archival standards.
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