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Folklore Archive: Southern Upland Folklife in the Midwest Oral Histories
Collection
Identifier: WSOH002713
Abstract
The Folklore Archive, established in 1939 by WSU English professors Emlyn Gardner and Thelma James, contains the oldest and largest record of urban folk traditions in the United States. In 1981, as the Wayne State University Folklore Archive's contribution to the Great Lakes Art Alliance's Regional Folklife Project, field researcher Patricia Radecki documented the folk traditions of Southern Appalachian whites who had migrated to the metropolitan Detroit area, in part through oral history...
Dates:
1981; 1995
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Folklore Archive: Student Field Projects Oral Histories
Collection
Identifier: WSOH002714
Abstract
The Folklore Archive, established in 1939 by WSU English professors Emlyn Gardner and Thelma James, contains the oldest and largest record of urban folk traditions in the United States. To document these traditions, Wayne State University students conducted field research projects that included oral history interviews. Collection consists of audio recordings of 55 interviews (or aggregations of multiple interviews on a single topic) conducted by student interviewer-collectors, some of which,...
Dates:
1961 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1968 - 1971
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Mildred Jeffrey Oral History
Item
Identifier: LOH002295
Abstract
In August 2002, Mike Smith interviewed UAW labor leader and civil rights and women's rights activist Mildred "Millie" Jeffrey at the Walter P. Reuther Library in Detroit. Jeffrey was the UAW’s first female department head and directed, in succession, the Women’s Bureau, Community Relations Department, and Consumer Affairs Department. Collection consists of recordings of two interviews. Jeffrey discusses her childhood in rural Iowa, family, education, entry into the workforce and the labor...
Dates:
2002-08-08; 2002-08-28
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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- Appalachians (People) 2
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- Manners and customs 2
- Religious life 2
- Rural-urban migration -- United States 2
- Traditional medicine 2
- Women -- Folklore 2
- African Americans 1
- Automobile industry workers 1
- Civil rights movement 1
- Coal miners 1
- Detroit (Mich.)--Riot, 1943 1
- Detroit (Mich.)--Riot, 1967 1
- Ethnic groups -- United States 1
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- Jews. American 1
- Journalism 1
- Labor union locals 1
- Mental health 1
- Nursing 1
- Polish Americans 1
- Prohibition--United States. 1
- Sex discrimination 1
- Social justice 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- Video recordings 1
- Wayne County (Mich.) 1
- Women in the labor movement 1
- Women labor leaders 1
- Women's rights 1
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- Wayne State University. Folklore Archives 2
- International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America 1
- Langlois, Janet L. 1
- Radecki, Patricia 1
- Smith, Mike (Michael O.) 1
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