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Reuther Library content used in new documentary
Posted October 19th, 2010 by mwallace
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Walter Reuther and Richard Frankensteen shortly after being attacked by Ford Service men during the “Battle of the Overpass.” The men were beaten for distributing United Auto Workers leaflets outside of the Ford Rouge Plant, Dearborn, Michigan, 23 May 1937.
The 2010 North American Labor History Conference will top off this year’s event with a viewing of the latest cut of the new documentary Brothers on the Line on Saturday, October 23 at 11:00 AM.
The documentary, which relies heavily on the collections of the Walter P. Reuther Library, looks at the lives of the Reuther Brothers, Walter, Victor, and Roy, and their struggles to organize the United Auto Workers read more »
2010 North American Labor History Conference
Posted October 4th, 2010 by jruss
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The 32nd annual North American Labor History Conference (NALHC) will take place October 21-23, 2010 on the campus of Wayne State University. In 1979, a committee representing Wayne State's History Department, the Walter P. Reuther Library, and other parts of the University formed to address the growth of labor history as a field of scholarship. The result was the first NALHC in October 1979. read more »
Book Announcement: How to Keep Union Records
Posted September 24th, 2010 by ljones
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Like other organizations, labor unions and the archives that house their material operate in and are shaped by history. That history is largely informed by the records that labor archives receive from labor unions, the “symbiotic relationship” between the two, as Michael Nash reminds us, and the extent to which they are made available to and used by researchers. This is the message found within How to Keep Union Records. Edited by Michael Nash with selections by a cadre of labor archivists, the book is intended as much for labor archivists requiring guidance as it is for unions seeking ways to manage their records and ensure that their legacy lives into the future. read more »
Book Announcement: The Color of Law
Posted September 14th, 2010 by teller
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- African Americans
- African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--History--20th century
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Book announcement
- Cavanagh, Jerome P.
- Civil rights
- Civil rights--America--Cases
- Courts--United States
- Crockett, George W.
- Detroit (Mich.)
- Detroit--politics and government
- Detroit--race relations
- Detroit--social conditions
- Edwards, George
- Gleicher, Morris, 1917-1992
- Keith, Damon J. (Damon Jerome), 1922-
- Minorities--Civil rights
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Race relations
- Racism
- Young, Coleman A.
Next month metropolitan Detroit authors and frequent Reuther Library researchers Steve Babson, Dave Riddle, and David Elsila are releasing their book The Color of Law: Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights, which uses information garnered from collections held at the Reuther.
We have many records and manuscript collections that reflect how the local government, legal system, and organizations have addressed the intersection of civil rights, race, and the law in metro Detroit. read more »
