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Digital files in DF-70152/1 are not available for download online. For further information about access to online materials, contact Research and Instructional Services staff at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

Restrictions to Use

No usage restrictions.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Saul Schniderman Collection #70152-z, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Saul Schniderman in February 2023 (Acc. 20230403.3).

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Processed by: Dawne Howard Lucas and Davia Webb, April 2023

Encoded by: Laura Smith, April 2023

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Green, Archie.
• Kahn, Si.
• Labor Heritage Foundation.
• Labor--Songs and music.
• Music--Political aspects--United States--History.
• Protest songs--United States.
• Reece, Florence, 1900-1986.
• Schniderman, Saul.
• Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014.

Saul Schniderman, a white librarian and labor folklorist, co-founded the Labor Heritage Foundation and was active in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the largest trade union of public employees in the United States, for more than 40 years. Schniderman’s labor career began at the University of Maryland College Park, when he organized library workers into AFSCME Local 1072. From 1988 until 2018, he served as president of the Library of Congress Professional Guild, AFSCME Local 2910, and has also served on the executive board of AFSCME Council 20, District of Columbia.

Collection contains papers and photographs collected by white librarian and labor folklorist Saul Schniderman. Papers include a brochure from the Labor Heritage Foundation, labor song lyrics and music, a 1984 letter from folklorist and historian Archie Green, and tributes written about Green following Green's death in 2009. Photographs of Pete Seeger, Florence Reece, and Si Kahn are also included. Also includes the Forty Years Young record by the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union Northeast Department.

• Photographs (PF-70152/1)
• Digital folder (DF-70152/1)
• Commercial audio recordings and serials have been separated from the collection.