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An interview with Jefferson is included in Terkel's book, "Division Street: America
An interview with Kid Pharoh, a former prize fighter, is included in Terkel's book, "Division Street: America."
An interview with Kid Pharoh, a former prize fighter, is included in Terkel's book, "Division Street: America."
Aileen and Eugene Smith discuss their photographic essay book, "'Minamata', Words and Photographs," documenting the mercury poisoning of residents and their legal battles with the polluting company Chisso.
Interviewing labor organizer Tom Ramsay while Studs was in Lexington, Kentucky.
Interviewing with the Hardin family while Studs was in Newburgh, Indiana.
Discussing the National Federation of the Blind with Steven Bensen, Debbie Kent Stein, and William Heyford.
Discussing the book "Who Built America?: Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture and Society," (published by Pantheon) with one of the authors, Stephen Brier.
Studs discusses books with Sir Allen Lane and labor with his driver, Clifford Bosley, while Studs was visiting the UK in 1962. The main topic of conversation with Sir Allen Lane is the history of paperback books in both the UK and the US. Lane, along with his brothers Richard and John Lane, founded Penguin Books in 1935. This made both fiction and nonfiction literature widely available to the general public. Literacy amongst the masses is discussed, as is censorship. Studs' interview with Clifford Bosley begins at 32:33.
Studs discusses labor with Sir Allen Lane's driver, Clifford Bosley, while Studs was visiting the UK in 1962. Studs and Bosley discusses life in Wales for coal mining families. Topics include literacy, camaraderie, singing, health concerns, and culture amongst colliers and their families.
Interviewing three independent booksellers| Richard Bray, Paul Yamazaki, and David Unowsky.