Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1924, Jan. 24 | Born, New York, N.Y. |
| 1945 | B. A., New York University, New York, N.Y. |
| 1946-1948 | Attended New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y. |
| 1948-1951 | Field secretary, NAACP, working on projects relating to trade unions, domestic workers, migrant agricultural laborers, and civil rights and social issues |
| 1951-1977 | NAACP labor secretary |
| 1955 | Published Citizen's Guide to Desegregation: A Study of Legal and Social Change in American Life. Boston: Beacon Press |
| 1959 | Published No Harvest for the Reaper; The Story of the Migratory Agricultural Worker in the United States.New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| 1960 | Married Patricia Blake Nabokoff |
| 1963 | Married Carol De Chellis Edited Soon, One Morning; New Writing by American Negroes, 1940-1962. New York: Knopf |
| 1966 | Edited Anger and Beyond: The Negro Writer in the United States. New York: Harper & Row |
| 1967 | Co edited with Arthur M. Ross Employment, Race, and Poverty.New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. |
| 1968 | Visiting professor, San Fernando Valley State College, Northridge, Calif. |
| 1972-1976 | Editor, New Perspectives on Black America,six-book monographic series published by Putnam, New York, N.Y. |
| 1977 | Published Black Labor and the American Legal System, Race, Work, and the Law. Washington: Bureau of National Affairs |
| 1977-2004 | Professor of industrial relations and African-American studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. |
| 1981 | Married Vibeke Fulton |
| 1989 | Married Mary Lydon (died 2001) |
| 1993 | Edited with James E. Jones Race in America: The Struggle for Equality. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press |
| 2004, Aug. 15 | Died, Madison, Wis. |