Showing Collections: 1976 - 1987 of 1987
Women in Communications Detroit Chapter Records
Collection
Identifier: UR001733
Abstract
The Detroit chapter of Women in Communications, Inc. (WICI) was founded in 1938 as the Detroit Alumnae Chapter of Theta Sigma Phi. WICI dissolved in 1996 due to financial issues and was reformed as Association of Women in Communications (AWC), a national professional organization for women in the communications field. WICI provided networking, programming, and professional development to its members, and engaged with issues like women’s workplace rights and First Amendment freedoms of speech...
Dates:
1939-1999; Majority of material found within circa 1970s-1990s
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Detroit Branch Records
Collection
Identifier: UR001870
Abstract
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to ending war and bringing about world peace. Formed in 1919 along with the Michigan branch, Detroit's WILPF branch has been active in pushing for peace and equality throughout the region and nationally. These actions reflected in the collection include lobbying politicians (notably Michigan governors, Representative John Dingell, and Detroit mayor Coleman Young), writing...
Dates:
1910 - 2009; Majority of material found within 1960 - 2003
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom: Meta Riseman Records
Collection
Identifier: UR000619
Abstract
Subjects include: peace; human rights; anti-Semitism
Dates:
1913 - 1979; Majority of material found within 1946 - 1957
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Workers' Defense League Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000408
Abstract
This collection of correspondence, press releases, newspaper clippings, speeches, trial briefs and transcripts, and published pamphlets and leaflets, thoroughly documents the Worker's Defense League's efforts to obtain justice for labor organizers, government critics, victims of racial and economic discrimination, and conscientious objectors, through established, legal processes.
Dates:
1935 - 1971
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Workers' Education Local 189 Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000954
Abstract
Workers Education Local 189, American Federation of Teachers, was founded in November 1922 as the bargaining agent for the faculty members of Brookwood Labor College. After Brookwood closed its doors in 1937, Local 189 opened its membership to all persons, regardless of geographic location, who were engaged in workers' education. Throughout its existence Local 189 had been active in distributing workers' education materials to other members of the AFT, and to public schools, colleges and to the...
Dates:
1939 - 1977
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Workmen's Circle Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000048
Abstract
The Workmen's Circle is a Jewish nonprofit organization based heavily in New York City, with a number of branch organizations around the country, including Detroit, Michigan. Workmen's Circle, today, focuses on social justice activism and the promotion of Yiddish culture and education.
Dates:
1984 - 2014; Majority of material found within 1985 - 2000
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Works Progress Administration National Research Project Publication Records
Collection
Identifier: LR002546
Abstract
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was signed into creation by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in order to research and develop solutions for unemployment in America. During its tenure, the WPA built roads, schools, hospitals, parks, and airports. Additionally, the WPA had a hand in funding some plays, literary publications, and art projects. The WPA was dissolved in June 1943 at a time when American unemployment was relatively low as a result of the creation of jobs due to World War...
Dates:
1937 - 1940
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
WSU Alpha Phi Omega Records
Collection
Identifier: WSR002663
Abstract
Created in 1925, Alpha Phi Omega is a national service fraternity of college and university men who are or have previously been affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America. The fraternity’s key goals are developing friendships and promoting service to humanity, which they do through a number of charitable efforts. The Wayne State University chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, the Zeta Phi chapter, was instated by the National Fraternity on May 27, 1948. This collection consists of materials...
Dates:
1948 - 1957
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
WWJ / WDIV Film, Video, and Teleprompter Scripts
Collection
Identifier: UAV001112
Abstract
WDIV began as WWDT in March of 1947 as the first television station in Michigan and the sixth in the United States. It was owed by the Evening News Association which also owned the Detroit News newspaper and Detroit’s WWJ Radio. WWJ Radio was originally part of the National Broadcasting Company’s NBC Radio Network and is the reason why the current television station is still an NBC affiliate. In May of 1947, to match the radio station’s call letters, WWDT changed its call letters to WWJ. Less...
Dates:
1920-2011; Majority of material found within 1947 - 1978
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Wyndham Mortimer Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP001171
Abstract
As United Auto Workers (UAW) Vice-President, Wyndham Mortimer worked to organize the employees of General Motors Fisher Body Plant, which led to the Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936-1937, and later participated in the negotiations that achieved the first UAW-GM contract. Mr. Mortimer was active in factional struggles within the UAW as a leader of the Unity Caucus and was ultimately expelled from the UAW with charges of Communist allegiance. Mr. Mortimer’s papers document his work in the UAW,...
Dates:
1943 - 1973; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1962
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Yale Stuart Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000159
Abstract
Mr. Stuart served as president of the Detroit Joint Board of the United Public Works. His papers document the activities of the United Public Workers-CIO, and the work of Mr. Stuart with City of Detroit employees. Wage increases, collective bargaining for municipal employees, union elections, and loyalty oaths are covered.
Dates:
1945 - 1949
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Young Woman's Home Association Records
Collection
Identifier: UR001923
Abstract
Organized by a group of socially prominent Detroit Women, and originally known as the Working Woman's Home Association, the YWHA provided a residence for women. Although the physical building closed in 1969, the YWHA continues to offer projects that benefit women and children in Michigan. Their records relate primarily to the operation of the residence club for working women.
Dates:
1877 - 2016
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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