Oral History Interviews and Video Addresses

	Harry Bridges Founder and leader of the ILWU, Harry Bridges was one of the outstanding labor leaders of the 20th Century. In this 1986 speech, he helps Local 23 commemorate the 100th anniversary of longshore unionism in Tacoma.
	Nikki Bridges Writer, activist, wife of Harry Bridges, Noriko Sawada Bridges (Nikki)grew up in California, spent three years in a concentration camp during World War II, and was active in labor and civil rights before meeting Bridges in 1958. For the next thirty years, both Nikki and Harry committed themselves to the labor movement, civil rights, and economic justice.
	Jack Tanner Judge, Civil rights attorney, ILWU member, Jack Tanner was the first African-American in the Pacific Northwest to serve on the federal bench. Tanner was born in Tacoma in 1919. His father was a longshoreman and Tanner began his working life on the docks. In this talk Tanner discusses Harry Bridges and the ILWU’s tradition of interracial unionism.
	Jean Gundlach For thirty years Jean Gundlach served as the administrative assistant of the ILWU Coast Committee. In practical terms this meant that she worked day-in and day-out with Harry Bridges. In the 1990s Gundlach was instrumental in forcing then-UW president William Gerdberding to issue a formal apology to the victims of the Canwell Committee trials. In 1992 she was a central in the creation of the Harry Bridges Chair in Labor Studies .
	Martin Jugum Martin Jugum may have only referred to himself as a “working stiff,” but for over fifty years he was a key figure in the ILWU and central to the creation of the Harry Bridges Chair in Labor Studies at the University of Washington. Jugum held many elected positions in the ILWU, including business agent of Local 19.
	Pete Grassi Pete Grassi was the secretary-treasurer of the ILWU’s Southern California Pensioner’s Club. Grassi was born in 1910 in Chicago and moved to California in 1919. He started working on the waterfront in 1928 and was active in the ILA’s efforts to win coast-wide union recognition in the 1930s and the coast-wide longshoremen’s strike in 1934.
	Jeff Stranahan Secretary-treasurer of the ILWU’s Columbia River District Pensioner’s Association. He was a steadfast member of the ILWU for over 48 years and dedicated to the principles of organized labor. Here, Stranahan talks about Harry Bridges’ relationship with rank-and-file ILWU members and the trust he put in them.
	Ron Magden Ron Magden’s passion for teaching and writing about Pacific Coast longshoremen has spanned many decades. He is author of many books, including The Working Waterfront, and A History of Seattle’s Waterfront Workers. Magden has been crucial to the development of this on-line history project.
	Fred Haley Champion of both civil rights and academic freedom in the Pacific Northwest. As president of the Tacoma School Board in the 1960s he advocated for the hiring of African American teachers in the Tacoma public school district and he served on the Washington State Committee for Academic Freedom.
	Bruce Nelson Labor historian, professor of history at Dartmouth University, Bruce Nelson is author of Workers on the Waterfront and Divided We Stand. In his talk, Nelson discusses Harry Bridges, the ILWU, and race relations during the civil rights era.
	Robert Cherny Labor historian, professor of history at San Francisco State University, Robert Cherny is writing a biography of Harry Bridges. He is author of American Labor and the Cold War and A Righteous Cause, a biography of William Jennings Bryan. His talk here discusses Harry Bridges and labor radicalism on the Pacific Coast.