In this life history interview, labor organizer and leader Moe Foner reflects on fifty years of activism. His reminiscences include reflections on: his childhood in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, his family’s politics; his early work in department stores in Brooklyn and the City Registrar’s Office at the City College of New York; his involvement with the Young Communist’s League in Boro Park in the 1930s; his observations of anti-fascist activity in the 1930s, and the impact of the Nazi-Soviet Pact.  He also recounts his involvement with the formation of the Foner brother’s band, "Suspended Swing," in 1941; his work as a filmmaker in producing "The 1199 Story," 1959; "A Hospital Strike," 1959; "I Am Somebody," 1969; "Like a Child," 1972, and "Take Care," a musical review, in 1978.   Foner also reflects on  his experiences as a staff member of Store Workers Local 1250 in New York City; his employment at 1199 from 1952 through his retirement in 1982 and his subsequent role as advisor to the union; his organizing activities with the hospital workers at Montefiore Hospital during the 1950s and 1960s, and subsequent changes in legislation. He recalls memories of the March on Washington in 1963; the Bronxville Strike in 1965; the AFL-CIO Convention in 1967; the first National Labor Conference protesting the war in Vietnam in Chicago in 1968 and the Charleston Strike in 1969.  Foner also reflects on his leadership in the formation of the 1199 Bread and Roses Cultural Project in 1978 through the support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities,  and its national and international legacy; his work with the National Hospital Union, and the strike of hospital workers on the eve of the Democratic Convention in 1984, among many other activities.