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  • Interviewing Pete Seeger about "The Incompleat Folksinger" ; part 1

    Dec. 20, 1972
  • Interviewing Perley Ayer

    Jun. 12, 1964

    The executive director of The Council of The Southern Mountains offers insight into the experience of Appalachian migrants to Chicago and other urban areas.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations

  • Interviewing people on the train ride to Washington, D.C., going to the civil rights March on Washington

    Aug. 28, 1963

    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. While aboard a train with 803 passengers, Studs Terkel spoke to various people about what this train meant to them. A female passenger said she was so happy to be on the train.

  • Interviewing Peggy Terry and Roger Phillips

    Jul. 13, 1976

    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. Terry is an organizer of poor Southern whites in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood

  • Interviewing Peggy Seeger

    Nov. 14, 1996
  • Interviewing peace and political activists Joe and Jean Gump, Kathy Kelly and Rick McDowell

    Dec. 13, 1996
  • Interviewing peace and political activists Jean, Joe and Joey Gump

    Aug. 29, 1986
  • Interviewing peace and political activists Jean & Joe Gump, and Kathy Kelly

    Sep. 17, 1992
  • Interviewing peace activists; Mike Bremer, Robert DeYoung, Katey Feit, Kathy Kelly and Nadie Ohelson

    Dec. 5, 1994
  • Interviewing peace activist, Brian Willson

    Apr. 21, 1988
  • Interviewing peace activist Jean Gump

    Mar. 28, 1986
  • Interviewing Pat Duncan

    Jun. 18, 1963

    The anti-apartheid activist Pat Duncan, on a visit to Chicago, compares and contrasts conditions in South Africa with those in America.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Interviewing painter and illustrator Al Hirschfeld

    Nov. 14, 1997

    Hirschfeld is best known for his theatrical images and his long career with the New York Times.

  • Interviewing pacifist Reverend William Sloane Coffin

    Mar. 7, 1989
  • Oscar Brown Jr.

    Interviewing Oscar Brown Jr.

    1963
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