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Congratulations to the Recipients of the 2026 Sam Fishman Travel Grant!
Posted July 17th, 2026 by krouan
The Walter P. Reuther Library is proud to announce the recipients of the 2026 Sam Fishman Travel Grant.
These annual grants provide up to $1,000 to support travel to the Reuther Library to access archival records related to the American labor movement. The award is named in honor of Sam Fishman, a former UAW and Michigan AFL-CIO leader.
As part of their research visits, awardees are invited to discuss their research on Tales From the Reuther Library and/or another WSU outlet. Watch for updates about recipient visits later in the year. read more »
[Podcast] Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity
Posted July 2nd, 2026 by teller
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Dr. Cedric De Leon explains how, from the founding of the African Blood Brotherhood in 1919 through the 1963 March on Washington, Black workers linked racial justice to economic justice and challenged the American labor movement to become more racially inclusive in its fight for workers’ rights. read more »
Reuther Library Acquires Casey Kasem and American Top 40 Collection from Radio Historian Pete Battistini
Posted July 2nd, 2026 by krouan
The Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, is pleased to announce the acquisition of an archival collection focusing the radio show American Top 40 (AT40). This collection, generously donated by radio historian Pete Battistini, highlights the two men who built AT40 and share a connection to Wayne State: Casey Kasem (B.S.Ed. ’58), who hosted AT40 from 1970 to 2004, and Don Bustany (B.A. ’51), the show’s co-creator and producer.
For more about this gift, please visit: https://library.wayne.edu/blog/2026/06/30/wayne-state-acquires-casey-kas....
Guest Post: Claire Cirocco on Ronald Raven Award, 2026
Posted May 29th, 2026 by slebovitz
Claire Cirocco received a 2026 Ronald Raven Annual Award, a scholarship providing a tuition stipend, and a 135-hour internship in the Wayne State University Archives. At the end of her internship, Claire wrote this summary of her experience.
Raven Award Intern Blog Post
Beginning my journey in the Master of Library and Information Science program in the fall of 2024, I was determined to pursue a career in archives and initially set my sights on specializing in maintaining audiovisual collections. I have since been granted several amazing opportunities to gain hands-on experience processing both manuscript and audiovisual collections and have expanded my knowledge of the workflows and procedures necessary for long-term preservation of these types of materials. read more »
