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Title: Interview with Bob Alexander. Part 2
Creator: Alexander, Bob (Political activist)
Date: 2016-02-19
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: In the second of a two part oral history interview, liberal political activist Bob Alexander talks further about his time in the National Teacher Corp, his youth in Detroit, Michigan, and the influences in his life which served to make him a liberal activist. He talks about leafleting while still elementary school, associating with French radicals in Detroit, protests he was involved in, being shot at, and being confronted by an armed bar owner while hanging posters. He also talks about his...
Show moreIn the second of a two part oral history interview, liberal political activist Bob Alexander talks further about his time in the National Teacher Corp, his youth in Detroit, Michigan, and the influences in his life which served to make him a liberal activist. He talks about leafleting while still elementary school, associating with French radicals in Detroit, protests he was involved in, being shot at, and being confronted by an armed bar owner while hanging posters. He also talks about his political activity in southeast Michigan, including working for increased voter registration, joining the Human Rights Party, and running successful campaigns for HRP candidates for the Ann Arbor City Council. Alexander is interviewed by retired Michigan State University Labor Studies Professor John Revitte.
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Title: Gilberto V. Martinez describes his life as a migrant worker traveling with his family between Texas and Wisconsin
Creator: Martinez, Gilberto V.
Date: 2006-07-28
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Gilberto V. Martinez describes his life as a migrant worker traveling with his family between Texas and Wisconsin. Martinez talks about moving from school to school, working the farm, and getting involved with PASSO (Political Association of Spanish-speaking Organizations) to politically empower Mexican Americans in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He describes raising money to pay the Texas poll tax, finding candidates, those candidates being fired when they were elected, and merchants...
Show moreGilberto V. Martinez describes his life as a migrant worker traveling with his family between Texas and Wisconsin. Martinez talks about moving from school to school, working the farm, and getting involved with PASSO (Political Association of Spanish-speaking Organizations) to politically empower Mexican Americans in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He describes raising money to pay the Texas poll tax, finding candidates, those candidates being fired when they were elected, and merchants refusing to sell to the new Chicano officials. Martinez also describes coming to Michigan, enrolling at Michigan State University, and continuing as a community activist. Interviewers are Michigan State University Professor Dionicio N. Valdés and MSU Librarian Diana H. Rivera.
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Title: Libertad ahora Oscar López Rivera t-shirt
Date: /2014
Collection: Midwest Chicano Latino Activism Collection (MICHILAC)
Description: Short sleeve shirt; cotton; black with white and gray screen printing. Image of López Rivera and seal of the CPDHPR; adult medium

Title: Rhetoric, economy and the technologies of activist delivery
Creator: Ridolfo, James
Date: 2005
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Arguing for change : arguments by activists, non-activists and in the media regarding domestic partner benefits
Creator: Campo, Michelle Lynn, 1968-
Date: 1999
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: RAF, quotes from George Jackson and Daniel Viglietti
Date: 1976
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows the insignia of the Red Army Faction (a red star with a Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine across it and overlaid with the acronym RAF). Flanking the top point of the star are two probably, unidentified RAF members (a man and a woman). At the head of the poster is a quotation by former political activist George Jackson. He writes that he can only control how he lives not how long. On the lower half of the poster is a lengthy quotation signed "Daniel Viglietti, Chile" who speaks in...
Show morePoster shows the insignia of the Red Army Faction (a red star with a Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine across it and overlaid with the acronym RAF). Flanking the top point of the star are two probably, unidentified RAF members (a man and a woman). At the head of the poster is a quotation by former political activist George Jackson. He writes that he can only control how he lives not how long. On the lower half of the poster is a lengthy quotation signed "Daniel Viglietti, Chile" who speaks in honor of fallen comrades as well as for those still living who take precise aim at their enemy. He warns of the uselessness of paper against bullets and songs against weapons. Poster in red, white and black.
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Title: A betrayal of the Credo Group
Creator: Adeniyi, Dapo, 1963-
Date: 1995-06
Collection: Glendora Review
Description: Discusses Wole Syinka's politics and writing in the 1960s, and his autobiography, Ibadan : the penkelemes years : a memoir: 1946-1965.

Title: Practice and theory : a new approach to rhetorical delivery
Creator: Ridolfo, James
Date: 2009
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

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