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Interviewer
Max Krochmal
Contributor
Rafael Delgadillo
Date of Interview
2025
Publication Date
1-13-2026
Narrator Birth Year
1959
Description
Willie Woods Jr. is a lifelong resident of New Orleans, born in 1959 and raised in the Treme neighborhood. His father was a Teamster truck driver, and his mother worked in the hospitality industry. Mr. Woods spent his entire career as a banquet server in New Orleans, working at the Convention Center, the Fairmont Hotel, the Monteleone, and the Hilton. Through his decades of work, he gained extensive first-hand experience in both union and non-union environments, which culminated in his role as a worker-organizer in the campaign to unionize the Hilton.
Disciplines
Oral History
Geographic Coverage
New Orleans, LA
Time Periods
1990s to present
Duration
24:45:00
File Size
789.2 MB
Format
mp4
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Woods, Willie and Krochmal, Max, "Oral History Interview with Willie Woods (Part 1)" (2026). Economic Justice Research Lab Oral History Project. 36.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ejrloh/36
Comments
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