Labor
joins Harlem march
Power on Parade
  Executive Director Lillian Roberts leads DC 37 down Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard at the African American Day Parade. |
DC 37 Executive Director Lillian Roberts joined
Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate H. Carl McCall, United
States Senator Charles E. Schumer, Rep. Charles B. Rangel, Manhattan
Borough President C. Virginia Fields and famed attorney Johnnie
Cochran at the front of the annual African American Day Parade in
Harlem.
Thousands of African Americans and other New Yorkers marched along
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard on Sept. 22 with musical groups,
colorful floats and the Harlem baseball team that made it all the
way to the final round of the Little League World Series.
DC 37’s green and white float bore the theme, “Union Power
is Political Power.” With Ms. Roberts and DC 37 staff leading
the way, it proudly rolled down the crowded boulevard as members
along the parade route enthusiastically waved and yelled out, “That’s
our union!”
Union leaders from Health Services Employees Local 768 and Social
Service Employees Union Local 371 also marched with large contingents
of members.
“It is an honor and a privilege to be leading this union through
this community, which has a long history of producing so many great
labor leaders,” said Ms. Roberts.
Sylvia Ash, Angela Robinson, Jose Sierra, Audrey McConny, Maynard
Anderson, Tessa Hackett-Vieira and Cynthia Chin Marshall —
members of the DC 37 Black History Committee — coordinated
the union’s participation at the parade. Mr.McCall was the
grand marshal.
— Alfredo Alvarado