- Collection:
- Southern Labor Archives
- Title:
- Bobby Harnage oral history interview, 2016-03-02
- Creator:
- Harnage, Bobby
- Contributor to Resource:
- LaPorte, Philip A.
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2016-03-02
- Subject:
- Labor Unions
Privatization
Southern States
Sports
Military police
Politics
Elections - Location:
- Philippines, 13.40882, 122.56155
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Bobby Harnage was born in in 1939 in Lakeland, Florida. His family then moved to Moultrie, Georgia. He graduated high school in 1957. After attending college for a year, Harnage joined the Air Force. After basic training, he got assigned to a technical school. After completing police school at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, he was sent to Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. In 1963, Harnage left the military and in 1964, he signed with a union. He quickly gained a title in the union and worked within labor unions the rest of his career, serving in roles that include national representative, national secretary-treasurer, and national president.
In this interview, Harnage discusses his youth, which centered around sports. He then discusses attempting college, but leaving early to join the Air Force. Harnage discusses his 18 months in the Philippines and the development of his investigatory skills during his time as an Air Force police officer. He then discusses his return to the United States and subsequent jobs. In 1964, he joined his union, which changed the course of the rest of his life. He spends the rest of the interview discussing the many roles he played in local and national union organizations. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/labor/id/6095
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Harnage, Bobby, interviewed by Philip LaPorte, March 2, 2016, Voices of Labor Oral History Project, Southern Labor Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 04:27:14
- Original Collection:
- Voices of Labor Oral History Project
http://research.library.gsu.edu/VoicesofLabor
Southern Labor Archives - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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