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Excited to announce the launch of the 'Songs of the UAW' digital exhibit! Featuring five classic albums released by the UAW on vinyl, digitized and made available here:
projects.lib.wayne.edu/omeka-s/s/song…
#StandUpUAW

The UAW made many attempts to protect the environment, including being an early supporter of the proposed Earth Day. Reuther made speeches at campus teach-ins as a precursor to the holiday and the UAW made an initial donation of $2,000 to the Earth Day cause. Happy Earth Day!

On this final weekend of #WomensHistoryMonth some photos of #womeninSTEM from the Reuther Library WSU archives. #wsuchemistry

On this day in 1941:
UAW striking workers walk picket line outside of Ford Rouge plant. Police officers on horseback pause to listen to broadcast from DETROIT BRANCH NAACP Youth Council sound car. Reuther Library WSU photo

Just had a great visit to San Antonio interviewing Shelley Potter 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 for the AFT oral history project. This will be a great addition to the AFT historical collection Reuther Library WSU. More great interviews to come! #1u #laborhistory #oralhistory

I spent the afternoon researching Reuther Library WSU making some final preparations for the upcoming Midwestern History Association conference. I’ve gotta say, it’s definitely a top contender for the best-decorated reading room. 👀

I was surrounded by some wonderful 20th century union iconography at the Reuther Library WSU in Detroit this week.

Excited about leading a Detroit History Tour for Wayne State University students tomorrow. We're visiting Detroit's old Black Bottom community. Here's a vintage photo of that neighborhood. It is currently known as Lafayette Park. Reuther Library WSU photo

Ford autoworkers in Dearborn, MI, finally voting in a union representation election after years of bloody opposition by the employer and local politicians. April 1941. They overwhelmingly voted to join the UAW, becoming members of UAWLocal600.
📸 from the Reuther Library WSU

Happy to announce, at long last, the opening of the AFSCME Organizing and Field Services Department records, bulk dates 1967-1980 at the Reuther Library WSU. archives.wayne.edu/repositories/2… The collection that brings you gems like this:

Get your pickets, it's pickets picketing pickets spring! Three different reporters all had the same great idea when covering this argument between Local 1 and Local 4 in 1961.

📸: SEIU International Vice-President Records here at the Reuther Library WSU

Loving the slide rule and jar of face powder on this 1952 poster from our SWE collections! #WomenInEngineering #WomenInSTEM #ArchivesHashtagParty #ArchivesWomenInSTEM

Buttons from the Susan Holleran Papers. Holleran was a journalist for AFSCME and founding member of CLUW National, among many other roles. archives.wayne.edu/repositories/2… #WomensHistoryMonth National NOW

At the opening reception of Judge Damon Keith’s exhibit at the Museum of African American History. Reuther Library WSU Peter Hammer

On this day in 1995:
Detroit labor leader Horace Sheffield Jr. dies  michiganadvance.com/briefs/on-this… via @michiganadvance Changed To Change! Reuther Library WSU UAW UAW_Archivist

We are pleased to announce that a substantial addition to the Horace Sheffield Jr. Papers is now open for research. reuther.wayne.edu/node/15318

' Reuther Library WSU celebrates Black History Month with a brief review of the important role that African Americans have played in the formation and growth of the UAW, and the influence of black UAW members within the polity of Detroit.'

reuther.wayne.edu/node/10107

Founded during a bloody encounter between police and strikers, their purpose was to put themselves between the cops and the strikes, to shield the men with their lives if necessary. “We weren’t a tea-drinking society.” — Genora Johnson Dollinger. #SitDownStrike
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Roscoe Van Zandt, a janitor at Chevrolet Plant Four, is the only Black worker officially acknowledged to have sat down inside the plants. When strikers marched out victorious on February 11, 1937, Van Zandt was chosen to carry the U.S. flag. 📸 Reuther Library WSU #SitDownStrike