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  • Discussing the book "Flight of the Gin Fizz : Midlife at 4,500 Feet" with the author, book editor and critic Henry Kisor

    Sep. 9, 1997
  • Discussing the book "Eugene V. Debs: citizen and socialist" with the author Nick Salvatore

    May. 24, 1983

    Nick Salvatore discusses Eugene V. Debs' life.

  • Discussing the book "Blue Belle" with the author, attorney Andrew Vachss

    Dec. 13, 1988
  • Discussing steelworkers and labor unions with Edward Sadlowski and Theodore Smolarek

    Jul. 1, 1974

    Discussing steelworkers and interviewing Ed Sadlowski of the United Steelworkers of America and Ted Smolarek.

  • Discussing rape as a weapon of war with Vivian Stromberg, Vera Litricin, Durda Knesevic, Sofija Sarich and Mirna Cunningham

    Mar. 25, 1993

    These five women are from Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Nicaragua.

  • Danny Newman in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Oct. 11, 1983

    Discussing the 1983-1984 Lyric Opera of Chicago season with publicist Danny Newman.

  • Dan Berman and Bob Fowler

    Dan Berman and Bob Fowler discuss death on the job

    Mar. 29, 1979

    Discussing death on the job with Dan Berman and Bob Fowler.

  • Christine Fox, Annie Merrill and Jennie Wilkes discuss their work and upbringing in England

    1970

    Christine Fox, Annie Merrill and Jennie Wilkes discuss sexism in the television industry, their upbringings, and what life is like in England for young women. This is the first of two interviews, four years apart, with these women. 1965631-3-1 is the follow up.

  • Chicago residents Alice and Bob Taylor talk with Studs Terkel

    1970

    Recorded in the Taylor's home against a backdrop of sounds created by a nine-children family, Studs, Alice and Bob discuss aspects of a white family living in a predominately African-American amidst an exodus of the white, Christian community. Includes a performance of "Onward, Christian Soldiers" by the family around their piano, and "Jesus Loves Me" by two of the children.

  • Chicago blizzard

    Chicago Blizzard field recordings: January 1967 snow-in ; part 2

    May. 13, 1967

    Terkel discussing the snow-in in Chicago in January 1967. Interviewee talks about how the human interaction differs during a blizzard then on a clear day.

  • Chicago blizzard

    Chicago Blizzard field recordings: January 1967 snow-in ; part 1

    May. 13, 1967

    Studs Terkel talks to people on the street about their observations during the blizzard that caused many people to be snowed-in. A veteran news vendor said the deliveries are slower, there are no cars or taxis around and that everyone who works downtown is staying in the hotels downtown. A young police officer said he witnessed more people giving others rides. One gentleman told Terkel that to him, it was as though everyone knew each other, and there were no strangers in a blizzard.

  • Cesar Chavez discusses unionizing migrant farm workers

    Jun. 4, 1973

    Cesar Chavez discusses unionizing migrant farm workers, and how nonviolent tactics made the farm workers' struggle a cause with nationwide support(grape boycott). Includes excerpt from Hard Times: Voices of the Great Depression.

  • Cesar Chavez

    Cesar Chavez discusses farm labor rights

    1967

    Cesar Chavez discusses the United Farm Workers effort to gain rights for farm laborers and his childhood that led him to become a labor rights activist.

  • Carl and Hallie Foster discuss living their lives in Newburgh, Indiana

    1970

    Carl and Hallie Foster talk about the good and the bad of Newburgh, Indiana. Having been a welder for most of his life, Carl Foster, reflects on the time he got sick while on the job. He had gotten cancer and had to be fed intravenously for six months. While he was out sick, the company did not compensate him. When asked about his hobby of growing banana trees, a true calm and passion takes over his personality, as noticed by Studs Terkel.

  • Bill Adelman, Paul Avrich, Carolyn Ashbaugh, and Bill Neebe discuss the Haymarket Square Riot

    May. 2, 1986

    Commemorating the centennial of the Haymarket Square Riot, or Haymarket Affair, are authors and historians Bill Adelman, Paul Avrich, Carolyn Ashbaugh, and the grandson of Haymarket defendant Oscar Neebe, Bill Neebe. The interveiwees create a timeline of the events leading up to the Haymarket Riot including the German immigrants living situations, unions and strikes, police brutality and corruption. The group also lays out the events from May 1st to May 5th and then the following corrupt trials.

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