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Due to inclement weather the Walter P. Reuther Library building will be closing at 3 p.m. today, Wednesday, February 12th, and will not reopen until Friday, February 14th.

During this building closure, staff will be working remotely and are happy to help assist your research needs. Please submit your questions to reutherreference@wayne.edu and we will answer as soon as we can. Stay safe!

The Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, invites applications for the Ronald Raven Award to begin Spring 2025. The award consists of $2,500 to go toward tuition, fees, or other educational expenses and an internship of 135 hours at the Walter P. Reuther Library. Applications are due by Friday, February 14, 2025.  read more »

The Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs is now accepting applications for the 2025 Sam Fishman Travel Grant Program. The program provides research grants of up to $1,000 to support support faculty, students, independent researchers, and union members to defray travel, lodging, food, and other costs to conduct research in the Reuther's extensive labor collections. The award is named in honor of Sam Fishman, a former UAW and Michigan AFL-CIO leader and grants are only given in support of projects relating to labor history.

Applications are due Friday, February 28th.

For more information, please visit our Scholarships page.

This is your last chance to explore our latest case exhibit Political Campaigns. The display shares materials from our collections that document political campaigns from city council all the way to the President of the United States. Photographs, buttons, stickers, and related ephemera, such as press passes to national conventions and invitations to the 1960 Inaugural Ball, illustrate the vibrant ways in which campaigns are run.  read more »