- Collection:
- Southern Labor Archives
- Title:
- Linda Woodson oral history interview, 2015-02-17
- Creator:
- Woodson, Linda
- Contributor to Resource:
- Drummond, Traci
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2015-02-17
- Subject:
- African American women
African Americans--Social conditions
Railroad employees
Labor Unions
Social workers
Amtrak - Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Linda Woodson was born in Washington, D.C. in 1952. She received her bachelor's degree in social work in 1996 from the University of the District of Columbia and her master's in 1998 from Howard University. From 2000 to 2011, Woodson worked as an Employee Assistance Program Counselor for Amtrak.
In this interview, Linda Woodson discusses her professional development. She begins by discussing her work as a receptionist and secretary for Amtrak. Over the next decade, she changed jobs within Amtrak, working as an administrative assistant and in the safety department. She discusses her education in social work. Woodson concludes the interview discussing her employment as an Employee Assistance Program Counselor for Amtrak. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/labor/id/6720
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/labor:6720/manifest.json
- 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: Woodson, Linda, interviewed by Traci Drummond, February 17, 2015, African Americans in Transportation Oral History Project, Southern Labor Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 01:19:38
- Original Collection:
- African Americans in Transportation Oral History Project
Southern Labor Archives - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
