I maintain AFT's historical records and other AFT related historical projects at Wayne State University's Walter P. Reuther Library. reuther.wayne.edu/
Hey all you academics, labor activists! The North American Labor History Conference is looking for papers! This year the theme is Workers, Unions, and the Role of Government. But of course we also love other topics as well. #laborhistory#1Unalhc.wayne.edu/call-for-pap…
On todays podcast Dr. Harris Dousemetzis shares the extraordinary impact US President Jimmy Carter had on gay rights in the 1970s from his book “the Carter Presidency and Gay Rights.
reuther.wayne.edu/node/15363@CarterLibrary#LGBT
The educator Barbara Bowman devoted her career to teaching teachers how to prepare the youngest and most vulnerable children to fulfill their potential. She has died at 96. nyti.ms/4ioaKVm
My first book is out next week, and the UMass Boston Labor Resource Center is hosting a virtual book launch. Join us for a conversation with three brilliant organizers who are fighting for living wages, rights, and respect for paras/ESPs in Massachusetts today!
As AFT archivist I love pushing out @AFTunion history. But also enjoy having our educational collections highlighted. So proud we are hosting detroiteddemocracy.com/ to explore the 50th anniversary of milliken v bradley. #segregation#education@nehgov
Dr. Fraser shares from his book the often overlooked story of the "hillbilly highway", a route nearly 8 mil poor, white Americans took in the 20th century from areas in the Southern US toward factory jobs in the Midwest. @MwHWG@lawcha_org#hillbillyreuther.wayne.edu/node/15323
Today marks 56 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s tragic assassination while in Memphis supporting the strike by AFSCME-represented sanitation workers. We honor his legacy and that of the strikers in the award-winning I AM Story podcast — iamstory.com/.