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American History & Politics Chicago
  •  Susan Catania, Clara Day, and Margaret Klimkowski

    Illinois state representative Susan Catania, Clara Day and Marguerite Klimkowski discuss the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

    Nov. 1, 1978

    Discussing the Equal Rights Amendment with Illinois Representative Susan Catania and political activists Clara Day and Margaret Klimkowski.

  • Anna Deavere Smith

    Anna Deavere Smith discusses her career

    May. 4, 1995

    Anna Deavere Smith discusses and demonstrates her unique character portrayals from her works "Fires in the Mirror" and "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992."

  • Richard McLanathan

    Richard McLanathan discusses his book "The American Tradition in the Arts"

    1969

    Richard McLanathan discusses his book "The American Tradition in the Arts" and takes Studs on a sprawling journey through artistic breakthroughs in architecture, painting, literature, and more while touching on dozens of artists and their works.

  • R. Buckminster Fuller

    R. Buckminster (Richard ) Fuller talks with Studs Terkel

    Jan. 20, 1965

    A sprawling conversation with R. Buckminster Fuller including his great aunt Margaret Fuller, future communication, the nature of work, human nature, and physics.

  • Anne Guerrero discussing event in her life ; part 2

    1968

    Anne Guerrero discusses the impact her divorce has had on her younger children. She also discusses her own career and her future plans as well as her connection to the Roman Catholic Church. This recording ends abruptly and is part 2 of 3.

  • Panel of women recipients discuss being welfare recipients in Chicago

    Jan. 1, 1969

    A panel of women discuss raising their families while getting welfare assistance and living in poverty in Chicago.

  • Saul Alinsky

    Saul Alinsky, American community organizer, political activist, and writer discusses his book "Rules for Radicals" with Studs Terkel

    Dec. 31, 1971

    Community organizer and social activist, Saul Alinsky speaks about his newest book, "Rules for Radicals," and reminisces about his work in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, his advocacy for African-American labor rights, and his connection with the Mexican-American civil rights movement in California. Although Studs' introduction states that this is a rebroadcast of a 1962 interview, that is incorrect. The interview was recorded in 1971.

  • Discussing the book "The Haymarket Tragedy," with the author, historian Paul Avrich

    Dec. 27, 1984
  • Discussing Italians in Chicago with a panel of guests

    Mar. 16, 1981

    Discussion about Italians in Chicago

  • Tom Wolfe

    Studs Terkel and Tom Wolfe discuss architecture and Wolfe's book, From Bauhaus to Our House

    Nov. 16, 1981

    Discussing the book "From Bauhaus to our house" with the author and journalist Tom Wolfe.

  • Paul Robeson

    Gathering of friends discussing Paul Robeson

    May. 8, 1970

    Recorded live on Chicago's South Side. Robeson is ill at the time of recording. Speakers: Earl Dickerson, Etta Moten Barnett, Judge Sidney Jones, J. Mayo "Ink" Williams, Joan Brown (possibly Abena Joan Brown), Charles Hamilton, Margaret Burroughs, [John Gray's sister], [Stevens?]

  • Studs visits the Illinois Institute of Technology to view student work about Vietnam

    May. 24, 1970

    Interviewing guests at the Institute of Design memorial in Crown Hall on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology. The student work on view is a collaboration between the Schools of Architecture and Planning, and the Institute of Design.

  • Interviewing attorney and former Chicago alderman Leon Despres, Chicago Municipal Reference librarian Joyce Malden and Lew Kreinberg

    Dec. 10, 1992
  • Mary Lynn McCree Bryan

    Mary Lynn McCree Bryan talks about her book "Eighty Years at Hull House"

    Jan. 13, 1970

    Discussing the book, "Eighty Years at Hull House," and interviewing the co-author, Mary Lynn McCree Bryan. Mary Lynn McCree Bryan discusses the Hull House and its founders in Chicago, Illinois. Includes two clips of Florence Scala speaking: one about nature and about a tree that was taken down at Hull House and one about Jane Addams. Includes a clip of Jessie Binford discussing Jane Addams.

  • Stokely Carmichael

    Stokely Carmichael, Charlie Cobb, and Courtland Cox discuss the philosophy of the SNCC ; part 2

    1968

    Stokely Carmichael, Charlie Cobb, and Courtland Cox discuss civil rights and African Americans in politics. Discussing the philosophy of SNCC. Includes Charlie Cobb reading his poem. Duplicate of 1916310-3-2.

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