Michigan State University Libraries
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- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- President Barack Obama announces a new $30 billion strategy for the war in Afghanistan that includes deploying an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to the country. He says that the deployment is necessary to destroy the last strongholds of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban and to ensure international security.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-12-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1977-07-12T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Professor David Wiley, former Director of the Michigan State University African Studies Center, is interviewed by MSU Librarian Peter Limb and John Metzler, MSU Professor of Education. Wiley reflects on his youth in Harrisburg, Illinois and an upbringing of manual labor and familiarity with rural life which he says prepared him for his career studying Africa. Wiley describes attending Yale Divinity school and going to Africa on an internship to work on race issues. He talks about life in Rhodesia and Southern Africa, Apartheid, poverty, education, religion, and class. Wiley also explains why he came to MSU after teaching at the University of Wisconsin, appreciating the activism at MSU, and his relations with other faculty associated with the African Studies Center. Wiley describes a number of MSU initiatives in Africa, his activity in the anti-Apartheid movement and finally visiting a free South Africa. Part of the African Studies Interview Series sponsored by the MSU Libraries and the MSU African Studies Center.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-11-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Booker T. Washington originally spoke before a predominantly white audience at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta on September 18, 1895. The speech later became known as the Atlanta Compromise speech. In this speech, he talks about the improvement of race relations and conditions in the South.
- Date Issued:
- 1906-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Bill Clinton's joint press conference with French President François Mitterrand. It deals with foreign affairs, armaments, humanitarian efforts, and trade issues.
- Date Issued:
- 1993-03-09T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- President Barack Obama speaks at the 2014 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in Washington, D.C. on the 100th anniversary of the association's founding. Obama uses a slide show and video clips along with jokes to poke fun at his many detractors as well as his supporters making humorous remarks about politics and the media.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-05-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- President Clinton announces the budget agreement he made with the Republican Congressional leaders.
- Date Issued:
- 1997-07-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1981-03-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Cal Stewart's comedy routine, Train time at Punkin Center.
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection