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AWOC Audio Recordings Now Digitized

The Reuther Library is pleased to announce the digitization of over 100 reel-to-reel audio ... here . These recordings were donated to the Reuther Library by Ernest Lowe, photographer and author, who spent many years of his ... of History,” an initiative supported by the American Library Association and the National Endowment for Humanities. ...

Blog entry - Public Relation... - 08/19/2016 - 08:42 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Collection Focus: Wayne University Illustrated Map, 1939 - Part 1

... University Archives are located in the Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs, and our Reading Room is open from 10 AM ...

Blog entry - cwesterman - 02/11/2020 - 17:11 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

The Relocation of Japanese American Students to Wayne University during World War II

... an MLIS candidate at the Wayne State University School of Library and Information Science. (Henry, David D., Japanese Americans, ...

Blog entry - Public Relation... - 08/26/2014 - 13:51 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Judge Damon J. Keith Passes at 96 Years of Age

The Reuther Library mourns the passing of Judge Damon Jerome Keith who made his transition ... material documenting this work. The Walter P. Reuther Library agreed to become that repository and, in 1994, the Damon J. Keith ... which is now a joint effort between the Walter P. Reuther Library and the Keith Center, comprise the papers of a number of people ...

Blog entry - ljones - 05/24/2019 - 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

[Podcast] A Double Agent, a Conservative Affirmative Action Advocate, and a Black Nationalist Walk Into an Archive...: Field Report with Archivist Louis Jones

After a brief hiatus we’re back! Reuther Library Field Archivist Louis Jones discusses fascinating collections recently opened at the Reuther Library. William Gernaey was hired by Chrysler and Ford in the 1930s and 1940s ...

Podcasts - teller - 03/30/2020 - 09:28 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Oral History Heroes: Millie Jeffrey

... As the Oral History Project Archivist at the Reuther Library, my job is to arrange and describe our oral history collections so ... (NHPRC) Documenting Democracy grant awarded to the library in 2014. I’ve come to greatly admire many of the interviewees, and to ...

Blog entry - rbizonet - 01/09/2017 - 11:24 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Guest Post: A 40-Year-Old Mystery - The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa

... Kniffen, a student in the Wayne State University School of Library and Information Science, in early 2015. Jimmy Hoffa was a ... in October of 1975 (just one small fragment of the Reuther Library’s Jimmy Hoffa FBI Files collection ), a number of reliable ...

Blog entry - Public Relation... - 09/18/2015 - 08:59 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Philip P. Mason Oral History Now Available Online

What we now know as the Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs began in 1958 as the Wayne State University ... life and career is available for review at the Reuther Library. Conducted by Dr. Louis Jones, this 350-page oral history, spanning 13 ...

Blog entry - ljones - 08/09/2021 - 09:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Juneteenth - A celebration of freedom since 1865

... Detroit Branch Records housed at the Walter P. Reuther Library! 1997: Websites are launched to disseminate information about the ... Related collections and materials at the Reuther Library: Equality and Civil Rights Activism in America Gallery ...

Blog entry - srafferty - 06/22/2021 - 10:48 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(26188) Old Main, Detroit, Michigan

... view of Old Main from the back lawn of the Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Michigan. Date:  circa 1950s ...

Image - astankrauff - 08/01/2016 - 13:39 - 0 comments - 3 attachments