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Michael K. Honey Papers, 1908-2022

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Honey, Michael K.
Title
Michael K. Honey Papers
Dates
1908-2022 (inclusive)
1976-2022 (bulk)
Quantity
36.76 cubic feet (35 boxes and 1 oversize vertical file)
Collection Number
5294
Summary
Professor of labor and ethnic studies and American history at the University of Washington, Tacoma
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

Open to all users, but access to portions of the papers restricted. Contact repository for details.

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Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Biographical Note

Michael Honey received his Ph.D. in history from Northern Illinois University in 1988 and an MA in history from Howard University in 1978. He taught at University of Maryland, Wesleyan University, and University of Puget Sound, taking a post-doc at the Stanford Humanities Center in 1989. In 1990 he became a founding faculty of the University of Washington, Tacoma, helping to devise the curriculum for the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program (now a School of UWT). He initiated and taught the first black history and labor history courses; and with Kathie Friedman Kasaba, a sociologist, he designed the Ethnic, Gender and Labor Studies curriculum (now a major in IAS). Honey initiated the Ernie Tanner Labor and Ethnic Studies Center and worked closely with ILWU Local 23 and with African American churches in developing public programs in the community on labor and black freedom movement studies. He worked closely with the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis and continued his links to organizing and research in the South, where he had been the southern director of a civil liberties organization before going to graduate school. He held the Harry Bridges Endowed Chair of Labor Studies, 2000-2004; later became a vice-president and president of the Labor and Working-Class History Association; and has continued to work with the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association since he came to Tacoma. Honey received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and other grants for his labor and civil rights and Martin Luther King studies, and book awards from the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation, the Organization of American Historians, the Southern Historical Association, the State of Washington and the United Association of Labor Educators for his four monographs in labor and civil rights history and his edited volume of King’s labor speeches. His files include numerous oral histories, research in southern labor and African American history and music, teaching materials, and documents of his professional growth as a historian with wide national recognition and as a faculty member at the University of Washington, and as the Fred and Dorothy Haley endowed Professor of Humanities at the UW Tacoma.

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Content Description

General correspondence, research files, articles, student records, notes, drafts, subject files, conference files, program files, pamphlets, video recordings, audio cassette recordings.

Research files contain copies of correspondence held at other institutions concerning labor efforts in Alaska during the first half of the century and southern unionists in North Carolina during the Civil War.

Research materials for Honey's work on the Civil Rights movement and labor activism in the American South, materials on labor organizing and civil rights in the Pacific Northwest, oral recordings of black labor activists, the Memphis sanitation strike, John Handcox, and chattel slavery. Contains slides, newspaper clippings, videocassettes and sound cassettes of the aforementioned subjects as well as his program 'Links on the Chain.'' Also includes materials related to Honey's writing including articles, drafts, correspondence, reviews, publicity, and other materials related to publishing.

Also includes materials related to Honey's work with the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, other labor organizations, and Study of Community and Society background materials, newsletters, notes, financial records, and other materials.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Organized into 5 accessions.

  • Accession No. 5294-001, Michael K. Honey papers, 1908-2001
  • Accession No. 5294-002, Michael K. Honey papers, 1977-2005
  • Accession No. 5294-003, Michael K. Honey papers, approximately 1986-2009
  • Accession No. 5294-004, Michael K. Honey papers, approximately 1978-2022
  • Accession No. 5294-005, Michael K. Honey papers, 1969-2019

Processing Note

Unprocessed.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 


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