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Charles Grant discusses George Bellows, and Captain Herbert Anderson discuss life on a tugboat
Jun. 19, 1962 Charles Grant discusses painter George Bellows; also includes anecdotes about his life, including being the first passenger on an airplane and meeting Buffalo Bill. Captain Herbert Anderson's conversation begins at 34:44.
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Discussing the book, "Jerry Brown: The Man on the White Horse"
1970 Discussing the book, "Jerry Brown: The Man on the White Horse," and interviewing the author J. D. Lorenz.
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Discussing the book "The lean years: politics in a time of scarcity"
May. 20, 1980 Discussing the book "The lean years: politics in a time of scarcity" with the author Richard Barnett.
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John Bernard discusses his life, politics and his work with the Farmer Labor Party
Aug. 1, 1977 Interviewing labor organizer, civil rights activist, and former Congressman John Bernard. Bernard was elected as a Farmer-Labor candidate to the U.S. House of Representatives and served from 1937-1939.
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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.
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Barbara Kingsolver discusses her book "Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983"
Sep. 17, 1990 Since no men were allowed to picket against the Phelps Dodge Corp., Mexican American women showed up and according to Kingsolver’s book, “Holding the Line,” the picket lines were a brand new experience for the women. Some of the women had to get their husbands’ permission to picket. The group of women found their lives transformed not only with their cause but with new bonds of friendship from the other women.
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Ira B. Harkey discusses the south, civil rights, race relations, racism, his newspaper, and his career ; part 1
1966 Ira B. Harkey discusses the south, civil rights, race relations, racism, his newspaper, and his career. Includes Ira Harkey reading his writing from his newspaper the Mississippi "Chronicle-Star."
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Ira B. Harkey discusses the south, civil rights, race relations, racism, his newspaper, and his career ; part 2
1966 Ira B. Harkey discusses the south, civil rights, race relations, racism, his newspaper, and his career. Includes Ira Harkey reading from his newspaper the Mississippi "Chronicle-Star".
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Discussing the book "Eugene V. Debs: citizen and socialist" with the author Nick Salvatore
May. 24, 1983 Nick Salvatore discusses Eugene V. Debs' life.
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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.