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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 director and acting coach Peter Wood and Theatre School of DePaul University alumna and Chicago theater historian Lucille Strauss

    Aug. 24, 1988
  • Donald and Wendy Woods discuss the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa

    Oct. 23, 1987

    South African exiles Donald and Wendy Woods discuss the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa and their exile. The two describe their ignorance to the privilege they experienced as white people in South Africa during Apartheid, an ignorance they maintained until meeting and forming a relationship with the founder of the Black Consciousness movement, Steve Biko. Studs plays "Kwela Blues" - Lemmy Special Mabaso.

  • Discussing the book "Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987" with author and journalist Bob Woodward

    Oct. 19, 1987
  • Interviewing Linda Wright, Steve Braxton, Sam Turner, and Oneal Howell

    Oct. 20, 1993
  • Jonathan Wordsworth, Robert Woof, and Michael Jaye discuss the exhibition “William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism”

    Apr. 5, 1988

    Curators Jonathan Wordsworth, Robert Woof, and Michael C. Jaye discuss the exhibition “William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism”, an exhibition of paintings, watercolors, manuscripts, and literature inspired by Wordsworth's Romantic Poetry. Jonathan Wordsworth reads an excerpt of lines from William Wordsworth’s “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”, "To Toussaint L'Ouverture", and "The World Is Too Much With Us." Studs reads "My Heart Leaps Up" - William Wordsworth. Studs plays "Ça Ira" - Edith Piaf (1954) and "A Man's a Man for A'That" - Ewan MacColl (1959).

  • Welfare rights

    Discussing and debunking welfare myths with Wilma Green; Lynda Wright, Bottomless Closet board member; Doug Dobmeyer, head of the Illinois Public Welfare Coalition; Margaret Welsh; and journalist Henry De Zutter

    Jun. 22, 1989
  • Discussing the book "Stolen Continents: The Americas Through Indian Eyes since 1492" with author Ronald Wright

    Mar. 19, 1992
  • Discussing the book "The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945" with author, historian David Wyman

    May. 7, 1985
  • Interviewing Australian folksinger Martyn Wyndham-Read

    Oct. 14, 1992
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