Interview with IUE staffer and CLUW president conducted by Dennis Deslippe for his book, “Rights, Not Roses”: Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Rights & democracy -- Feminism, 1945-80.
Gloria Reinish was the first woman to receive an undergraduate degree, a master’s degree (both in electrical engineering), and a doctorate (in bioengineering) from Columbia University. She began her career in industry, working for Bell Labs,…
Gloria Steinem, a founder of Ms. Magazine and the National Women's Political Caucus, is a journalist and social activist. She is one of the best known feminist leaders of the 1970's and 1980's.
This interview is conducted in two parts. Part I discusses Chapman’s early years in Wisconsin, graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 1931 during the Depression. In 1934 a college fraternity brother asked Chapman to help him out with the…
Interview with L. Todd Duncan and Kathryne V. Lindberg about her and husband, James’s revolutionary activism in inner city Detroit and their role in constructing a “black Marxism.” Published in the Summer 2001 issue of Social Text.
In this interview Gus Petrakis recalls quitting college to go to work for Western Printing during the depression. Petrakis worked his way up to apprentice pressman, became affiliated with the Milwaukee local of the ALA, and became the first recording…
A series of interviews covering the United States government’s involvement in international labor affairs from the establishment of the State Department’s Labor Attaché program in 1943, includes correspondence.