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"Looking back on my life (as I have been doing most of my life) I began to see it as a tower. "

I was rummaging through my files today (February 16, 2009) and came across a folder labeled AFSCME.

"In June 1949, I graduated from CCNY, during July and August, I worked as a counselor at Camp CEJWIN, in September, I started taking classes as part of the newly created Master’s in Education program at CCNY, (known as the Free Fifth Year) and I…

"In May 1951, I had 'graduated' from the ILGWU Training Institute, but because I was now subject to the draft, I was not given an assignment."

"After 2 1/2 years (from September 1951 to January 1954) working full time as an organizer for Local 38 of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), and going full time to NYU, ostensibly working toward a PhD in Economics, and having…

"In the fall of 1965, I went to work for the US Commission on Civil Rights as a Field Representative in Washington, DC. "

"I don't want the title of this piece to give the wrong impression."

"Over the years, I have met a lot of people in connection with my work."

"I started writing this on August 28, 2005, the 42nd anniversary of the March on Washington."

"In the summer of 1956, I called Manny Muravchik to ask to meet with him. I had been told that he knew just about everybody in the labor movement. "