Correspondence, minutes, activity reports, newsletters, photographs, financial documents, legal documents, resumes, speeches, charts, newspaper clippings, constitutions, certificates, manuals, booklets, leaflets, maps, lists, programs, notes, 16mm film, and audio cassette recordings. Includes personal correspondence and records of the Lamberts; extensive materials on labor union organizing campaigns at several garment manufacturing plants primarily in Texas; extensive correspondence with the national and regional offices of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (1938-1967) and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (1953-1976), as well as films and photographs produced by the latter. Of special interest are materials on two strikes in San Antonio, the Pecan Workers Strike, 1938, and the Tex-Son Strike, 1959. Records are included of the work of Latane Lambert with various Democratic Party and political awareness organizations, particularly the Texas Liberal Democrats, 1960-1968, and the Texas State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, 1962-1971. Materials are abundant on Democratic Party political campaigns, particularly candidates Maury Maverick and Ralph Yarborough. The George and Latane Lambert Papers reflects the attitudes, ideas, and norms of the time periods and cultures in which they were created. Researchers using this collection may encounter materials that use inappropriate or harmful language to describe persons and events in individual documents or photographs. UTA Libraries seek to balance the preservation of this history with sensitivity to how these materials are presented to researchers.
Finding aid available here. Materials provided by Special Collections and Archives at the University of Texas at Arlington.
