Robert Moore

In this conversation, Ms. Edna Manns-Lake and Dr. Daniel Cumming talk to Robert “Bob” Moore. Their discussion focuses on Bob's history of community and union organizing in Baltimore, particularly his involvement with the 1199 SEIU healthcare workers union in the late 1960s and 1970s. While Bob did not live in the Fayette Street neighborhood, he and Ms. Edna worked together for many years as union organizers at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The conversation covers the challenges and successes of the union's organizing campaigns, the dynamics between the union and institutions like Johns Hopkins, and the broader social and political context of the civil rights movement.

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