A Day in the Life: a Union & Civil Rights Leader
on July 23, 2020
Bethlehem Steel Legacy Project, Oral history, Stories, Updates
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The Bethlehem Steel community lost a beloved figure when Eddie Bartee Sr. passed away in March at age 85. The son and nephew of steelworkers, he grew up in the company town of Sparrows Point and followed his father into the mill in 1955. The first African American president of Local 2609, he was a […]
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