Family background, childhood in Alexandria, VA and Jersey City, NJ; father's involvement with radical and black national politics; work with the Communist Party in New Jersey; problems during the McCarthy era; attendance at School of Marxist Studies, New York; work as a practical nurse; participation and leadership in District 1199 National Hospital and Health Care Employee's Union: 1969 Charleston , SC hospital strike, hospital organizing in New York, NY; controversies in the Hospital Workers Union in the late 1970s and early 1980s; impressions of Doris Turner and Leon Davis
Labor unions--Officials and employees; Hospitals--Employees; Internal security--United States; Civil rights--United States; White, David, 1917-2000; Communist Party of the United States of America