Walter Philip Reuther (/ˈruːθər/; September 1, 1907 – May 9, 1970) was an American leader of organized labor and civil rights activist who built the United...
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largest political rallies for human rights in United States history. Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, was the most integral and highest-ranking...
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dissatisfaction of Walter Reuther and the UAW, and the workers received only a 17.5-percent increase in wages. However, the strike also earned Reuther more prominence...
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United Auto Workers (category Walter Reuther)
in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party under the leadership of Walter Reuther (president 1946–1970). It was known for gaining high wages and pensions...
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The Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, located on the campus of Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, contains millions...
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Roy Louis Reuther (August 29, 1909 – January 10, 1968) was an American labor organizer. He was one of the leaders of the historic Flint sit-down strike...
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Reuther's Treaty of Detroit, five-year contract negotiated by trade union president Walter Reuther Walter P. Reuther Freeway (I-696) Walter Reuther Central...
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Victor George Reuther (January 1, 1912 – June 3, 2004) was a prominent international labor organizer. He was one of three Reuther brothers (Walter and Roy)...
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Walt Disney (redirect from Walter Elias Disney)
Walter Elias Disney (/ˈdɪzni/ DIZ-nee; December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. A...
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George Meany (section Conflict with Reuther)
of the AFL, and proposed to merge with the CIO. It took longer for Walter Reuther to complete his control of the CIO, but when he did he became a willing...
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Flint sit-down strike (category Walter Reuther)
related to Flint Sit-Down Strike. Reuther Library Subject Focus: Remembering the Flint Sit-Down from the Walter P. Reuther Library Audio interviews with workers...
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the formation of the United Auto Workers Union (UAW). During the war Walter Reuther took control of the UAW, and soon led major strikes in 1946. He ousted...
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Battle of the Overpass (category Walter Reuther)
approximately 2 p.m., several of the leading UAW union organizers, including Walter Reuther and Richard Frankensteen, were asked by a Detroit News photographer...
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Reuther's Treaty of Detroit was a five-year contract negotiated by trade union president Walter Reuther between the United Auto Workers (UAW) and General...
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working relationships with Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, and Walter Reuther. In 1968, Kennedy became a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination...
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Americans for Democratic Action (category Walter Reuther)
L. Rauh Jr. Walter Reuther Eleanor Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. John H. Sengstacke James Wechsler Walter White Wilson...
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Bay of Pigs in 1961, President Kennedy asked Roosevelt, labor leader Walter Reuther, and Milton S. Eisenhower, brother of President Eisenhower, to negotiate...
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differences that made the separate schools unequal. Under the leadership of Walter Reuther, the United Auto Workers donated $75,000 to help pay for the NAACP's...
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Walter Francis White (July 1, 1893 – March 21, 1955) was an American civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...
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of the United Presbyterian Church; A. Philip Randolph; labor leader Walter Reuther; Roy Wilkins of the NAACP; and (not visible in the image to the right)...
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for the United Auto Workers, wrote speeches for former UAW President Walter Reuther, edited Michigan Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) News and...
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Bernice Johnson Reagon Cordell Reagon James Reeb Frederick D. Reese Walter Reuther Gloria Richardson David Richmond Bernice Robinson Jo Ann Robinson Angela...
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focused partners played major roles. Under the leadership of labor leader Walter Reuther, for example, the United Auto Workers (UAW) was the most instrumental...
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and civil rights movement Rachel Carson (1907–1964), environmentalist Walter Reuther (1907–1970), leader in American labor movement and civil rights movement...
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booed). In addition, Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, gave a speech to the assembled crowd. Under Reuther's leadership, the UAW brought...
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Levitt Lucky Luciano Louis B. Mayer Charles E. Merrill Akio Morita Walter Reuther Pete Rozelle David Sarnoff Juan Trippe Sam Walton Thomas J. Watson Jr...
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for good over the issue of Communism. Anti-Communist liberals led by Walter Reuther and Hubert Humphrey expelled the far-left from labor unions and the...
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Workers (1956) Lichtenstein, Nelson. The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor (1995) Lichtenstein, Nelson and Stephen...
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