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  • Seeking “Self-Determination” in Detroit: Housing, Race, and the Activism of the West Central Organization, 1964-1971

    Seeking “Self-Determination” in Detroit: Housing, Race, and the Activism of the West Central Organization, 1964-1971
    2025/07/03
    Dr. Anna E. Lindner discusses the rise and subsequent downfall of the West Central Organization in Detroit, a coalition of civil rights organizations, community groups, and church congregations that sought to bring attention to housing inequality and other social issues in the 1960s. Although founded with good intent, the group’s aggressive lobbying gained short-term results … Continue reading Seeking “Self-Determination” in Detroit: Housing, Race, and the Activism of the West Central Organization, 1964-1971
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    47 分
  • Schools and the Rise of Mass Incarceration in a Post-Brown World

    Schools and the Rise of Mass Incarceration in a Post-Brown World
    2025/05/29
    Dr. Matt Kautz explores how evolving school disciplinary practices, changes in crime reporting, and political pressure in the decades following school desegregation led to the rise of student suspensions, expulsions, dropouts, and the school-to-prison pipeline in Detroit and other cities. Kautz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Leadership and Counseling at Eastern Michigan … Continue reading Schools and the Rise of Mass Incarceration in a Post-Brown World
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    51 分
  • The Worthy Wages Movement for Childcare Workers

    The Worthy Wages Movement for Childcare Workers
    2025/04/17
    Dr. Justine Modica discusses the Worthy Wages movement centered in Seattle from the 1980s through the 2000s. Affiliated with SEIU, daycare directors and childcare workers in childcare centers and home-based daycares joined together to raise public awareness of the underfunding of daycare and lobby for increased state childcare subsidies, hoping to increase the wages and … Continue reading The Worthy Wages Movement for Childcare Workers
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    53 分
  • Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19

    Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19
    2025/02/20
    Dr. Lori Flores discusses food systems in the US and Northeast region specifically, illuminating how the nation has developed a growing appetite for both Latinx food and Latinx food laborers, who are often underpaid and under-nourished as they help grow, process, transport, prepare, and serve food across the country. Flores is an associate professor of … Continue reading Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19
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    43 分
  • The Carter Presidency and Gay Rights

    The Carter Presidency and Gay Rights
    2025/01/16
    Dr. Harris Dousemetzis shares the extraordinary impact of U.S. President Jimmy Carter on gay rights in the 1970s and early 1980s, from instituting policies to prevent anti-gay discrimination of most federal employees to facilitating IRS nonprofit status for gay rights organizations and community centers, enabling them to receive federal funding for educational materials and health … Continue reading The Carter Presidency and Gay Rights
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    53 分
  • A Fond Farewell with Audiovisual Archivist Mary Wallace

    A Fond Farewell with Audiovisual Archivist Mary Wallace
    2024/12/23
    Reuther Library audiovisual archivist Mary Wallace has worn many hats over the past 27 years, from student page in the Reading Room to interim director and chief weather-spotter and safety monitor. As she prepares to retire in January 2025, Wallace reflects on the changes she’s seen at the Reuther and in the field, shares a … Continue reading A Fond Farewell with Audiovisual Archivist Mary Wallace
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    58 分
  • When Detroit Played the Numbers: Gambling’s History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City

    When Detroit Played the Numbers: Gambling’s History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City
    2024/10/17
    Dr. Felicia George explains how number lotteries in the city’s Black Bottom and Paradise Valley neighborhoods in the 20th century, although illegal and rife with exploitation, also raised some Black Detroiters out of poverty and created an important social support in a community stressed by racial discrimination and job insecurity. Dr. George is an adjunct … Continue reading When Detroit Played the Numbers: Gambling’s History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City
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    26 分
  • Building Power, Breaking Power: The United Teachers of New Orleans, 1965-2008

    Building Power, Breaking Power: The United Teachers of New Orleans, 1965-2008
    2024/09/03
    Dr. Jesse Chanin describes how the United Teachers of New Orleans (UTNO) gained power and influence in a region hostile to unions from the mid-1960s to the mid-2000s by building trust in the community with transparent and democratic decision-making and a focus on racial and economic justice to improve the lives of the New Orleans … Continue reading Building Power, Breaking Power: The United Teachers of New Orleans, 1965-2008
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    47 分