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Fall 2020 Reuther Access FAQ

1. What is the best way to learn more about the Reuther’s collections remotely? ... to talk about your needs. 5. What are archivists doing if they’re not available in the reading room? ... a simple research request, please reach out . 6. What if I have material I’d like to donate to the Reuther? Our field ...

Blog entry - mcourtney - 07/19/2021 - 09:36 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Fieldwork with the AFT archivist

... but within these trips there is the element of surprise. What will the file cabinets and dusty boxes contain? Will those in charge of ... to give full access to everything or just one room? What type of work environment will I be in? Are the files ordered or a jumbled ...

Blog entry - dgolodner - 10/01/2013 - 11:25 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Walter P. Reuther on National Healthcare

... the automobile as a metaphor to help people understand what he considered to be a national crisis. He stated, "when it comes to the ... Health Insurance. (ca. 1969). National health insurance: What it is, what it does, what it would mean for America. [Informational ...

Blog entry - Public Relation... - 04/03/2013 - 09:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Wayne Alumna Viola Gregg Liuzzo Honored for Her Work as a Civil Rights Activist

... posthumously at Wayne State. April 11, 2015 will mark what would have been Liuzzo’s 90th birthday and later in the week, on April ... suit against the Federal government in the early 1980s for what the family argued was the FBI’s complicity in their mother’s murder. ...

Blog entry - ljones - 12/21/2020 - 18:06 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event: Sacramento Knoxx and Storytelling as History

... of the Detroit area's archival records in a panel: "What Do We Need to Document Our Community's History Into the Archives?" ...

Blog entry - mcourtney - 04/25/2016 - 15:39 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Subject Focus: The Windsor-Detroit Funnel: Prohibition in Detroit

... Prohibition Act (also known as the Volstead Act), defined what constituted an illegal alcoholic beverage and provided federal, state, and ...

Blog entry - teller - 12/07/2017 - 14:40 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Collection Spotlight: UFW Montreal Boycott Office Records

... one considering 75 percent of the population spoke French. What made this even more astonishing was that Govea was a native Spanish ... various leaflets produced during this period to examine what information was provided in order to persuade the local French-Canadian ...

Blog entry - Public Relation... - 04/03/2013 - 09:52 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Civil Unrest of 1967

... of New Detroit, Inc. and Focus: HOPE deal with what came afterward. To hear an account of the unrest from the viewpoint of law ...

Blog entry - eclemens - 08/03/2020 - 13:58 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Love Letters

... Adoption” and “The Education of Shirley Shimmer.” What is remarkable is her seeming unflappability in the face of daily hardship, ... and declares “I have lived my life in accordance with what I felt and believed to be freedom of conscience and intellectual ...

Blog entry - drice - 02/28/2018 - 17:45 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Celebrate Wayne State's 150th Birthday!

... a complex evolution through one hundred and fifty years. What we now know as Wayne State University has been built through a number of ... later – in 1881 – the Detroit Normal Training School, what is now the College of Education, was established. This too was an ...

Blog entry - astankrauff - 01/29/2018 - 13:45 - 0 comments - 0 attachments