This interview with Ted Brandt describes his lifetime of union involvement. The interview recalls Brandt's early Local One union involvement working as a journeyman lithographer. Brandt’s active role in union negotiations, his positions as…
T.M., a non-union roofer and general contractor, was born and raised in Trenton, MI. T.M. got into the construction trade at age 18 after buying a house, realizing she could not afford to hire help she learned how to do the repair work herself. At…
An interview with Szymon Binke, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Mr. Binke was born in 1931 in Lódz, Poland. Shortly after the Nazi invasion his family was moved to…
The collection contains her 2003 oral history recording and transcript concerning her family’s move to the area from Chicago in 1943 to farm, her grandparents Leonard Foster and Gladys Leone Stoutmire, a cross burning incident, prejudice at the…