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  • Chicago Housing Authority

    Interviewing Elizabeth Wood ; part 1

    Feb. 6, 1964

    Wood, the first (ca. 1950s) Executive Secretary of the Chicago Housing Authority, about her experiences as a social worker in the United States and at international programs funded by the Ford Foundation, and about public housing.

  • Interviewing author and psychologist Thomas Cottle

    Mar. 27, 1979
  • Interview with Robert Blauner

    Apr. 11, 1990

    Discussing the book "Black Lives, White Lives: Three Decades of Race Relations in America," (published by University of California Press) with the author, sociologist Bob Blauner.

  • Interview with Dr. Robert Coles

    Jun. 2, 1978

    Interviewing author and child psychiatrist Dr. Robert Coles.

  • Interview with Dr. Robert Coles

    Apr. 22, 1986

    Discussing the book "The Political Life of Children" (published by Atlantic Monthly Press) with the author, child psychiatrist Dr. Robert Coles.

  • Interview with Dr. Robert Coles

    Dec. 20, 1990

    Discussing the book "The Spiritual Life of Children" (published by Houghton Mifflin) with the author, child psychiatrist Dr. Robert Coles.

  • Interview with Dr. Robert Coles

    Jan. 30, 1997

    Interviewing author and child psychiatrist Dr. Robert Coles.

  • Interview with Dr. Bruno Bettelheim

    May. 1967

    Discussing the book "Empty Fortress; Infantile Autism and the Birth of the Self," (published by Free Press) with the author, child psychologist Dr. Bruno Bettelheim. This program is an edited version of T1839 A&B.

  • Interview with Dr. Bruno Bettelheim

    1980

    Discussing the book "Empty Fortress; Infantile Autism and the Birth of the Self," (published by Free Press) with the author, child psychologist Dr. Bruno Bettelheim.

  • Interview with Diana Russell

    Mar. 28, 1977
  • David Hobman

    Interview with David Hobman

    1966

    Interviewing British social worker David Hobman.

  • Horace Cayton discusses is book "Long Old Road" ; part 3

    Sep. 7, 1966

    Content Warning: This conversation includes racially and/or culturally derogatory language and/or negative depictions of Black and Indigenous people of color, women, and LGBTQI+ individuals. Rather than remove this content, we present it in the context of twentieth-century social history to acknowledge and learn from its impact and to inspire awareness and discussion.

  • Horace Cayton discusses his book "Long Old Road" ; part 2

    Sep. 7, 1966

    Content Warning: This conversation has the presence of outdated, biased, offensive language. Rather than remove this content, we present it in the context of twentieth-century social history to acknowledge and learn from its impact and to inspire awareness and discussion. Loneliness and hardships of both fitting in and finding a job are covered in the continuation of Horace Cayton's, "Long Old Road: An Autobiography." By living in a middle class home in Seattle with a full time Japanese servant, Cayton was seen as better off than most people.

  • Horace Cayton discusses his book "Long Old Road" ; part 1

    Sep. 7, 1966

    Content Warning: This conversation includes racially and/or culturally derogatory language and/or negative depictions of Black and Indigenous people of color, women, and LGBTQI+ individuals. Rather than remove this content, we present it in the context of twentieth-century social history to acknowledge and learn from its impact and to inspire awareness and discussion. In "Long Old Road: An Autobiography," Horace Cayton talks about growing up in Seattle in a well to do, mostly white neighborhood. Cayton's grandfather was the first Black man elected to the U.S.

  • Henry Ollendorff

    Henry Ollendorff discusses refugees and migrants in Europe

    Feb. 14, 1974

    Content Warning: This conversation includes racially and/or culturally derogatory language and/or negative depictions of Black and Indigenous people of color, women, and LGBTQI+ individuals. Rather than remove this content, we present it in the context of twentieth-century social history to acknowledge and learn from its impact and to inspire awareness and discussion. Henry Ollendorff spent much of his life working as a social worker. Ollendorff talks about the migrant workers in Europe and how there were many job openings.

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