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Social Reformers

  • Charlotte Strongaard talks with Studs Terkel

    1968
  • Jesse Jackson

    Barbara Reynolds discusses her book "Jesse Jackson, the Man, the Movement, the Myth"

    May. 27, 1975
  • Interviewing members of a humanitarian aid caravan to Cuba; Gisela Lopez, Lisa Brocke and Dr. Peter Orris

    Jul. 13, 1993
  • Discussing the book "Reunion: A Memoir" with the author Tom Hayden

    Jun. 24, 1988
  • Discussing the book "Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson" (published by Random House) with the author, journalist Marshall Frady

    Jun. 12, 1996
  • Petra Karin Kelly, Gert Bastian in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Jan. 19, 1985
  • Discussing the book "Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life" with Martha Nussbaum.

    Feb. 16, 1996
  • Otis Thomas in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Jan. 29, 1990
  • Discussing the book, "Being and doing," and interviewing political activist Marcus Raskin ; part 1

    Jun. 29, 1971
  • Sister Helen Prejean talks with Studs Terkel about her book "Dead Man Walking"

    Apr. 13, 1994
  • Albert John Luthuli discusses the struggle for democratic rule in South Africa

    Mar. 1963
  • Allan Evans and Henry Jordan discuss The Foundation Years ; part 2

    1970
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