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Podcast: Assembly Line Housing: Walter P. Reuther, George Romney, and Operation Breakthrough – Part 1
Posted August 7th, 2018 by teller
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- African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--History--20th century
- African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--Social conditions--20th century
- City planning
- Collective bargaining
- Detroit--economic conditions
- Detroit--race relations
- Detroit--social conditions
- Discrimination in housing--Michigan
- Housing development--Michigan--Detroit
- Integration
- Labor unions
- Minorities--Housing
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
- Race relations
- Racism
- Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970
- Romney, George
- Segregation
- Urban renewal
In the first of a two-part series, Dr. Kristin Szylvian explains the role of the American labor movement, and UAW president Walter Reuther in particular, in lobbying for and shaping fair housing programs and legislation in Detroit and nationally after the Second World War. That influence paved the way for an unlikely alliance in the 1960s between Reuther and George Romney, the former Republican governor of Michigan, when they joined together in the late 1960s to launch Operation Breakthrough, a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development program to use union-made manufactured housing to alleviate the housing crisis in minority communities while also creating job opportunities and encouraging racial and income integration in the larger community. read more »
Discovering Unexpected Newspapers at the Reuther Library
Posted July 24th, 2018 by mcourtney
As part of my NextGen program participation, I was asked to help the Reuther Library create some teaching materials that would help students engage with primary sources. Being a PhD Student at Wayne’s History Department, I took on the task with enthusiasm. What I found ended up being far more significant for the field of labor history than I anticipated. 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.
| Suzanne Antisdel Collection | 08/13/2018 - 14:13 |
| Nel Lindemulder Papers | 07/27/2018 - 10:53 |
| Michigan Dance Archives: Leslie O'Day Benyo Papers | 07/23/2018 - 11:10 |
| Michigan Dance Archives: Denise Szykula Papers | 07/17/2018 - 09:20 |
| NALC Office of the President: Vincent Sombrotto Records | 07/10/2018 - 11:31 |
| Todd Winge Papers | 07/09/2018 - 16:21 |
| Trans Sistas of Color Project Records | 07/09/2018 - 13:10 |
| Nancy vom Steeg Papers | 07/09/2018 - 12:34 |
| Wayne State University Arab Fraternity Records | 06/21/2018 - 14:09 |
| AFSCME Political Action Department Records | 06/19/2018 - 12:50 |