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Chapter 23 - On the Line
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
On the job in the steel mills, the Ministers-in-Industry participants continue to shield their identities as seminarians to keep the situation real...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 15:41
Chapter 22 - The Summer of 1950
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
In the summer of 1950, Richard goes to work in the steel mills of Pittsburgh. The job was both part of his theological education and necessary to h...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 22:16
Chapter 20 - Beginning at the Beginning
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard looks forward to his studies under Reinhold Niebuhr, one of the most challenging theological thinkers of his generation. In his last summer...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 23:41
Chapter 18 - The Election of 1948
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard spends the 1948 fall election season organizing student chapters of the League for Industrial Democracy on college campuses. Though loyal t...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 28:27
Chapter 17 - Up on the Co-op Farm
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard and his friends sign up to work on the newly organized Carrot River Co-op Farm in the sparsely settled, harsh northern terrain of Saskatche...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 19:30
Chapter 16 - The Shaping of a Socialist
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
In June 1948, Richard travels to Canada to see “democratic socialism” in action. First he hitchhikes 1,000 miles from Greenwich Village to Madison,...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 24:55
Chapter 1 - The Making of a Political Consciousness
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard receives an early political education from his Socialist cigar maker grandfather, by hearing over-the-counter conversations at the butcher ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2013
  • Length: 24:25
Mill Town 2.0
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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What's next for Millinocket, Maine

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 09:13
  • Purchases: 1
Si Se Puede
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Song/Story
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An oral history account of the successful workers' sit-in at the Republic Windows and Doors factory in Chicago in December of 2008, the first Ameri...

Bought by Public Radio Remix and KFAI


  • Added: Oct 07, 2009
  • Length: 21:57
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Lillian Howell
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Lillian Howell, 89, tells her son Thomas about moving from Ohio to Virginia during the Great Depression.

Bought by KFOK-LP


  • Added: Oct 31, 2008
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Betty Esper and Mark Fallon
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Betty Esper talks to her friend Mark Fallon about life in Homestead, Pennsylvania, before the U.S. Steel mill closed in the 1980s.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KFOK-LP


  • Added: Aug 29, 2008
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: James Lacy
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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90-year-old James Lacy tells his daughter, Jamie Breed, about his father's general store in Comanche County, Texas.

Bought by Delta College Public Radio, KUOW, KFOK-LP, WMNF, and WSCS-FM


  • Added: Jul 07, 2008
  • Length: 02:18
  • Purchases: 5
StoryCorps Griot: Phyllis Johnson
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Phyllis Johnson tells her friend Danny Perasa about how she went from Police Department clerk to beat cop.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KFOK-LP, and WMNF


  • Added: Dec 21, 2007
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 3
The Port Chicago 50: An Oral History
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: American Worker Series
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The story of the worst homefront disaster of World War II -- an ammunition explosion that killed more than 300 men -- and what happened to the 50 A...

Bought by KCRW, Public Radio Remix, KALW, WNPR, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 25:12
  • Purchases: 13
Bible Salesman
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: American Worker Series
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Former door-to-door Bible salesman Jim "The Rabbit" Baker, featured in the classic 1969 Maysles Brothers film Salesman, explains the secrets of his...

Bought by Public Radio Remix, KFAI, WYBC, KSUT, and Public Interactive


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 10:14
  • Purchases: 5