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- Description:
- Hills explains why her department delayed acting on financing home-building until that bill came out of Congress.
- Date Issued:
- 1975-06-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Erik Nordberg, director of the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University in Detroit, delivers a talk entitled, "At home along the picket line : company housing and the 1913 Michigan Copper Strike," at the Michigan State University Museum. Nordberg describes housing options available to Michigan mine workers at the turn of the Twentieth Century and describes the housing incentives offered by the mining companies to attract a married, male work force. Lower living costs, Nordberg says, allowed coal companies to pay lower wages and he compares the range of incentives in different mining locations. Nordberg answers questions from the audience. Nordberg is introduced by Michigan State University Professor John P. Beck. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, the MSU Museum, and co-sponsored by the MSU Center for Gender in Global Context, and the MSU Women's Resource Center. Part of the University's Project 60/50. Held at the MSU Museum.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-01-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In this installment of "Know your city," Dr. Willis Dunbar explores the treatment of African Americans in Kalamazoo. Dunbar summarizes the findings of a 1945 study carried out jointly by the Social Action Committee of the Kalamazoo County Council of Churches and the Council of Social Agencies under the supervision of the Fisk University Social Science Institute, focusing on employment demographics and housing conditions. In order to illustrate and elaborate on the findings of this report, three African Americans from around Kalamazoo speak about their experiences with employment and housing. John Reed, the secretary of the Council of Social Agencies, and Lee Roy Pettiford, Director of the Douglass Community Center, discuss the current conditions for African Americans in Kalamazoo and conclude that little has changed since the Fisk University report in 1945. Pauline Byrd Taylor, of the Citizen Council on Human Relations, speaks urgently about the need to take action and actively seek greater equality in Kalamazoo.
- Date Issued:
- 1949-03-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Vice President Walter F. Mondale speaks to the National Press Club in Washington D.C. about employment, economic policy, foreign policy, housing and the 1978 Democratic campaign. Frank Aukofer, President of the National Press Club, directs questions from the audience to Mondale.
- Date Issued:
- 1978-10-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama lays out his ideas for strengthening the housing market and ensuring responsible middle class families have access to affordable mortgages and refinancing. He describes his plan for building a more durable and fair system that promotes the American Dream of home-ownership, while preventing another crisis. Obama says homes and jobs must be Washington's highest priority along with immigration reform. Held at Desert Vista High School in Phoenix, Arizona. Students sing Happy Birthday to the President.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-08-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In this installment of "Know your city," Dr. Willis Dunbar features the Salvation Army of Kalamazoo and he and his guests discuss a number of the organization's ongoing projects. Joanna Standish, the WKZO women's editor, describes a club designed to give senior citizens a place to meet, Salvation Army Captain Gordon Fobister discusses the renovation of a building in downtown Kalamazoo designed to provide a home for elderly men and Mrs. Homer Hager describes a Salvation Army workshop and vocational school for disabled people.
- Date Issued:
- 1948-12-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Truman urges precautionary measures against inflation and asks for housing and other legislation.
- Date Issued:
- 1948-08-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Critical Arts
- Description:
- Mildred Blandford talks about her service as a secretary in the American Red Cross during World War Two. Blandford, who served from August 1944 to November 1945, says that she joined the Red Cross for overseas adventure and spent most of her time stationed at the 194th General Hospital in Paris. She says that she was quartered in a Parisian hotel with maid service, but that service in the hospital was no picnic and meant leaving her secretarial duties often to help care for the onslaught of wounded soldiers. After VE Day, Blandford says that she volunteered for duty in the Pacific and was sent to Okinawa where she found herself living in a tent rather than luxury hotel. She talks about her daily tasks and again helping out with wounded G.I.s. and describes two typhoons that hit the island and how staff tried to protect the patients in the tent hospital from the storm. At war's end, Blandford says that she returned to Louisville to work, but later went back to Paris for school and to work for NATO. Blandford is interviewed by Dorothy M. Harrison.
- Date Issued:
- 1983-10-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Vice President Walter F. Mondale speaks to the National Press Club in Washington D.C. about employment, economic policy, foreign policy, housing and the 1978 Democratic campaign. Frank Aukofer, President of the National Press Club, directs questions from the audience to Mondale.
- Date Issued:
- 1978-10-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection