Tales from the Reuther Library

Recent Episodes

Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir of Wobbly Organizer Matilda Rabinowitz Robbins (Part 2)

Posted September 19, 2019 • 00:27:50

In the second of a two-episode series, artist Robbin Légère Henderson discusses the life of her grandmother, Matilda Rabinowitz Robbins, a Socialist,...

Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir of Wobbly Organizer Matilda Rabinowitz Robbins (Part 1)

Posted September 19, 2019 • 00:24:11

In the first of a two-episode series, artist Robbin Légère Henderson discusses her exhibition of original scratchboard drawings featured in the illustrated...

“You Do It and You Teach It”: 90 Years of Dance at Wayne State

Posted September 5, 2019 • 00:34:58

Eva Powers, recently retired associate professor and former chair of the Maggie Allesee Department of Dance, share the fascinating history and bright...

Labor Feminism in the Federated Press, 1930s through 1950s

Posted August 15, 2019 • 00:31:37

Dr. Victoria Grieve shares the lives of five pioneering female journalists of the Federated Press, a labor news service operating from the 1930s through...

Rise Up Detroit: Stories from the African American Struggle for Power

Posted July 25, 2019 • 00:29:33

Dr. Peter Blackmer discusses the launch of Rise Up Detroit (www.riseupdetroit.org), a website documenting the stories of activists in the Civil Rights...