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    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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    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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  • 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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    Walter Elias Disney (/ˈdɪzni/; December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. A pioneer...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    known today as Brown v. Board of Education. Under the leadership of Walter Reuther, the United Auto Workers donated $75,000 to help pay for the NAACP's...
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    Walter Reuther Central High School is an alternative high school in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Part of the Kenosha Unified School District, the school serves...
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    Maddow Thurgood Marshall Pauli Murray A. Philip Randolph John Rawls Walter Reuther Eleanor Roosevelt Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Al Sharpton Susan Sontag...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    favor Johnson. Robert Kennedy wanted his brother to choose labor leader Walter Reuther. Biographer Robert Caro offered a different perspective; he wrote that...
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