Tales from the Reuther Library

Recent Episodes

1933 Chicago Teachers Walkout: That Time Teachers Rioted With Textbooks and Rulers

Posted September 13, 2018 • 00:28:34

American Federation of Teachers archivist Dan Golodner tells guest host Bart Bealmear about the 1933 Chicago Teachers Walkout, when Chicago teachers...

Assembly Line Housing: Walter P. Reuther, George Romney, and Operation Breakthrough – Part 2

Posted August 23, 2018 • 00:28:37

In the second of a two-part series, Dr. Kristin M. Szylvian explains how racial segregation and the fear of declining property values ultimately scuttled...

Assembly Line Housing: Walter P. Reuther, George Romney, and Operation Breakthrough – Part 1

Posted August 9, 2018 • 00:28:27

In the first of a two-part series, Dr. Kristin Szylvian explains the role of the American labor movement, and UAW president Walter Reuther in particular,...

I Am A Man: Photographer Richard Copley Recalls His First Assignment, 50 Years After the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike

Posted July 26, 2018 • 00:17:39

AFSCME archivist Stefanie Caloia shares photographer Richard Copley’s story of his very first and what he considers his most important assignment...

Jessica Levy on “Black Power, Inc.: Global American Business and the Post-Apartheid City”

Posted July 11, 2018 • 00:27:38

Jessica Levy explains how American corporations and black entrepreneurs worked together to forge a new politics linking American business with black...