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Harriet Bouslog (2002-08-15)
About this film
Interview with Harriet Bouslog biographer & retired UH-Manoa Law Professor Mari Matsuda, recorded on August 15, 2002 for Biography Hawai'i: Harriet Bouslog. Topics include the significance & inner dynamics of the Bouslog-Symonds law firm; the reasons behind the common & curious phenomenon of haole (caucasian) leadership in the Hawai'i labor struggle, civil rights movement & radical intellectual circles; Harriet Bouslog's own reflections on Hawai'i's organized labor movement later in life; the ILWU leadership's philosophy & strategy on race relations within their union; what Bouslog would have considered her major career accomplishments & Matsuda's view on the best way to understand Bouslog as both a person & legal activist.
Directors & creators
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Harriet Bouslog, Mari Matsuda, Myer Symonds, Jimmy King, Edna Kamora, Hideki Nakamura, Jack Hall, Bob McGrath, Harry Bridges, Bouslog and Symonds Law Firm, International Longshore and Warehouse Union, ILWU, Smith Act, Labor movement in Hawaii, Race relations in Hawaii, Plantation history Hawaii, Abolition of the death penalty, Class struggle
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