"We felt like that instead of those nationals sending in white organizers that would go to 256, we wanted them to go w…"

"They can say anything they want to about it, but we carried it out democratically. Ain't going to say we didn't make …"

"They knew I'm going to fight you for...what I feel like is for the workers."

"Having a union made a lot of difference."

"The women were the backbone of that union."

"They were afraid of black people. They just couldn't stand to see, their nerves would not allow them to meet with ten…"

"We'd go to singing and he'd say, "Velma, how can you sing? They're working the hell out of you." And I said, "I'm sin…"

"When we once got the union, I think people began to realize, I've got a crutch, and they began to tell some things. S…"

"My training, I guess, came from coming from a mother and working in the church and in the school. I'd always particip…"

"In the beginning of the union we set up, because we had poor people, they didn't have enough. And you couldn't go to …"