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Harriet Bouslog (2002-09-11)
About this film
Interview with Eric Seitz, Honolulu attorney and legal contemporary of Harriet Bouslog, recorded on August 15, 2002 for Biography Hawai'i: Harriet Bouslog. Topics include the impression made on the local community by Harriet's role in the Majors-Palakiko case; why labor law cases have historically generated so much antagonism; the notion that Harriet was perceived as a "traitor" by the larger Hawai'i legal community during the height of her civil rights legal activism; the significance of the Smith Act cases to civil rights law; the satisfaction & joy that Harriet derived from her legal advocacy; Seitz's relationship with John & Aiko Reinecke & the signficance of the legal case brought against them and what Seitz feels are overall Harriet's most impressive personal characterisics.
Directors & creators
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Biography Hawaiʻi, Labor lawyers -- Hawaii, Communism -- Hawaii, Labor movement -- Hawaii, Woman lawyers -- Hawaii, Labor and laboring classes -- Hawaii
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