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TitleArchie Green interviewsTypeNonMusicAudioCollectionSummaryTwo interviews with Archie Green conducted by David A. Taylor of the American Folklife Center. Archie Green discusses his family history, his parents' immigration from the Ukraine to Canada and then to Los Angeles; his education at the University of California, Berkeley; his work as a surveyor for the CCC; his work as a shipwright, and his brief tenure as a labor union official during World War II. He enlisted in the Navy, was assigned to a ship repair unit, served in a drydock in San Diego and in Albany, California, then in the eastern Philippines and China, coming home in 1946. He discusses folk music and folksongs, the folk music revival, Young Democrats, the working classes, advocacy for vernacular culture, and his activities lobbying for the passage of the Congressional act that established the American Folklife Center at the Library of CongressCaptureRecorded Dec. 15-16, 2003 at Archie Green's home in San Francisco, Calif.Origin Date(s)2003 Authorized Access PointGreen, Archie Archie Green interviews