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Flint Faces Civil War: 1937

Article by Charles R. Walker, The Nation, 1937. “‘We’ll stay in till they carry us out on stretchers,’ is the message sent out by the sitdowners in Fisher 2. ‘We’d rather die than give up.'”

First Methodist Parsonage in the United States

Written by Christopher J. Anderson, Head of Special Collections, Archives, and Methodist Librarian @ Drew University Library.

That “One Third of a Nation” (1940)

Article by Edith Elmer Wood, appearing in Survey Graphic, 1940. “Equal opportunity which lies at the heart of democracy implies for every man, woman and child at least a sporting chance to attain health, decency and a normal family life. It was because the cards were stacked against a third of the nation that there had to be a new deal in housing.”

I Visit a Housing Project: 1940

Article written by Dorothy Canfield, appearing in Survey Graphic, 1940. “I don’t know anything about housing problems, but I know what I like. What I wanted to find out was how I’d like it if the circumstances of my life should put me into one of these brand-new, queer-shaped, rather stark-looking, low cost housing projects, about which we all read more or less in the newspapers, and at which we crane our necks as we drive by and are told: “Look, that’s one of the new federal building projects.”

McNally, Deborah

Deborah McNally received her Ph.D. in History in 2013 from the University of Washington, Seattle, where she is currently a lecturer. Her primary field is early American history and the nineteenth-century. She received her B.A. from the University of Washington in 2003, cum laude with distinction in History, and her M.A. in 2006. Debbie’s interests…

Mall, Mary Lou Ricker

Mary Lou Ricker Mall contributed information and original materials about her grandfather Leroy Allen Halbert. Currently Mary’s home is the repository for much of the original writing of Rev. Leroy Allen Halbert. Her grandfather was the inspiration for her interest in a career in the helping professions. Mary has degrees in Early Childhood Education and Special Education from…

Talpers, Jeanne Schiff

Jeanne Schiff Talpers, daughter of Philip Schiff, wrote essays on Madison House as a way to discover her father’s passion for social action. His early death at age 56 left many unanswered questions, but fortunately the archives of Madison House at the Social Welfare Archives of the University of Minnesota brought “the House” and her…

Crittenton, Charles Nelson

Charles Nelson Crittenton (1833-1909) – Business Owner, Evangelist, Philanthropist and Founder of the National Florence Crittenton Mission Introduction: Charles Nelson Crittenton went into the drug business in New York City in 1861. In 1882, after his four-year-old daughter Florence died of scarlet fever he devoted his time and wealth to the establishment of the Florence…

Knights of Labor

Article by Michael Barga. The Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor were the most prominent labor organization of the 1880’s. Characterized by its oath-bound secrecy, its emphasis on autonomy of local Knights and non-violence, and its broad sense of solidarity, it is considered by many to be a failed experiment in the labor movement which did not capitalize on the action-mindedness of the Great Upheaval moment.