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[Podcast] Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir of Wobbly Organizer Matilda Rabinowitz Robbins
Posted September 19th, 2019 by teller
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- Civil rights
- Emigration and immigration--History--20th century
- Equality
- Immigrants--United States--History
- Industrial Workers of the World
- Labor unions
- Labor unions--organizing
- Radicalism
- Robbins, Matilda
- Socialism
- Socialist Party (U.S.)
- Strikes and lockouts
- Women in the labor movement
- Women's rights
In a two-episode series, artist Robbin Légère Henderson discusses her exhibition of original scratchboard drawings featured in the illustrated and annotated autobiography of Henderson's grandmother, Matilda Rabinowitz Robbins, a Socialist, IWW organizer, feminist, writer, mother, and social worker. read more »
[Podcast] "You Do It and You Teach It": 90 Years of Dance at Wayne State
Posted September 5th, 2019 by teller
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Eva Powers, recently retired associate professor and former chair of the Maggie Allesee Department of Dance, shares the fascinating history and bright future of the modern dance program at Wayne State University. One of the longest-running dance programs in the country, it traces its origins to the Dance Workshop, founded in 1928 by Professor Ruth Lovell Murray. read more »
Manuscript and Records Collections - Recently Opened
The following list contains titles of Reuther manuscript and records collections added or updated within the previous two months. Click on each title for more information about the collections, including collection guides and finding aids.
Please contact Kristen Chinery, Reference Archivist for more information.
| UAW Local 22 Records | 09/20/2019 - 12:54 |
| Charles R. Anderson Papers | 08/29/2019 - 14:43 |
| ALPA Photographs | 08/27/2019 - 15:44 |
| UAW Civil Rights Department Records | 08/19/2019 - 11:52 |
| Maurice Kelman Papers | 08/14/2019 - 13:38 |
| Murray E. Jackson Papers | 08/13/2019 - 11:14 |
| Murray Seidler Papers | 08/13/2019 - 10:52 |
| Tucker P. Smith Collection | 08/08/2019 - 10:14 |
| David Scribner Papers | 08/07/2019 - 14:20 |
| Cleo Moran Papers | 08/02/2019 - 00:00 |