THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Hattie Canty
June 10, 1933 – July 12, 2012
“I’m not going to be beat down by the system. I’m not going to be beat down by the community. I guess that’s what makes me different.” – Hattie Canty
Labor activist. Las Vegas Hotel and Culinary Workers Union Local 226, executive board and president. Helped to found the Culinary Training Academy of Las Vegas in 1993.
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Photo 1. On the picket line, The New Yorker, February 26, 1996. Photo 2. Hattie speaking as President of the Las Vegas Hotel and Culinary Workers Union Local 226.
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More About Hattie:
- Audio recording clip of interview with Hattie Canty by Claytee D. White, February 27, 1998. African American Experience, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, University Libraries
- Oral History, UNLV University Libraries Special Collections
- “Hattie Canty | ONE”
- Six-year strike longest in U.S. Oct. 28, 1997
- Hattie Canty, Blackpast