Matthew Siegfried
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When the Union Came to Town: A Labor History of Willow Run in World War Two.
Join historian Matt Siegfried as we learn how the UAW-CIO came to Washtenaw County at the end of the Great Depression, and through a victory at Ford led the workers at Willow Run during World War Two, transforming the social landscape of Ypsilanti and bettering the lives of tens of thousands of people. We will dispel some myths about the "Arsenal of Democracy" as we look at the housing crisis, racism, resistance to unions, and the expendable treatment of thousands of workers. We will look at the role of the labor movement, including Socialists and Communists, in confronting multiple war time crises. From the rights of women workers to the struggle against segregation, from the fight for housing and services to the campaign to keep open the plant after the war and retain jobs and the community, the activities of those years would shape our region to this day.
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A Revolution and its Reversals : Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow in Ypsilanti.
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Reconstruction and Jim Crow were not just southern phenomena, but realities in Ypsilanti as well. Join historian Matt Siegfried as we take a close look at the revolution in African American social, political and cultural life in Ypsilanti after the Civil War and how this strong and confident community responded to Reconstructions defeat and the rise of Jim Crow. Delivered November 19, 2022.
View from the Huron River: The Native Great Lakes and the Conquest of Michigan. Part 2 1763-1842
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The Huron River watershed is an area rich in evidence of a variety of Native American cultures. Trails, mounds, cemeteries, village sites and fields dot the local landscape and are testimony to the different ways the landscape was seen and used over thousands of years. In more recent times, saw the establishment of many autonomous, multi-tribal, villages with their own unique histories and poli...
The Native Great Lakes and the Conquest of Michigan: A View from the Huron River, Part One
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The Huron River watershed is an area rich in evidence of a variety of Native American cultures. Trails, mounds, cemeteries, village sites and fields dot the local landscape and are testimony to the different ways the landscape was seen and used over thousands of years. In more recent times, saw the establishment of many autonomous, multi-tribal, villages with their own unique histories and poli...
Ypsilanti as a Black City: Part One, 1825-1900
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Ypsilanti as a Black City: Part One, 1825-1900. an online presentation October 12th at 7pm. Between the Civil War and around 1920, Ypsilanti was Michigan’s most populous African-American city by percentage. For generations this community, steeped in the struggle against slavery, played a leading role in the entire region’s Black life. Join historian Matt Siegfried as we take a look at the early...
Ypsilanti, Michigan's Place in the Story of Abolitionism and the 'Underground Railroad'
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Ypsi’s Place in the Story of Abolitionism and the “Underground Railroad”Whether from rural “free” Black communities along the Ohio River Valley, as fugitives fleeing bondage, northerners leaving racist America, or as people who found freedom in a myriad of other ways, Black Ypsilanti was deeply involved in this country’s most important freedom movement; the struggle to abolish slavery. Join his...
An Army of Liberation: Ypsilanti, Michigan's Black Civil War Experience
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Nearly seventy Ypsilanti men served in the Civil War's Black regiments, including many who had previously escaped from slavery. A dozen never returned. Whether with Michigan’s 102nd United States Colored Troops or the “Glory” regiments of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantries, Ypsilanti men were largely stationed on the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina. There they were at some o...
When Everything Seemed Possible The Radical and Left Press 1890 1924
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When Everything Seemed Possible. The Radical Press of the US left. 1890 to 1924. Matthew Siegfried, historian and curator of the online "Revolution's Newsstand" discusses the important revolutionary periodicals from the period around 1890and the birth of the Socialist Labor Party's The People' newspaper through the founding of Communist Party's 'Daily Worker' in 1924 and what they had to say ab...
Harvey Goldberg Lectures! Anti-Fascist and Communist Resistance in World War Two
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In this lecture from September, 1976 Harvey Goldberg looks at the powerful anti-fascist resistance movements of World War Two and the threat posed to the Allies by so many popular, armed, organizations, many led by Communists and revolutionaries, to their hopes of Post-War stability. Thanks to the Brecht Forum Archive for all the available audio of Harvey Goldberg's lectures. "These recordings ...
Harvey Goldberg Lectures! The Protestant Reformation, John Calvin, and Social Revolution.
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Harvey Goldberg Lectures! The Protestant Reformation, John Calvin, and Social Revolution from March 14, 1977. Professor Goldberg continues his exploration of the Reformation and the birth of capitalism with this look at the Calvinist reaction to Martin Luther and the 15th century's conflicts and how views of agency and knowledge quickened the pace of social transformation. Thanks to the Brecht ...
Harvey Goldberg Lectures! Lenin in 1917
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Harvey Goldberg Lectures! Marxism and History. Lin in 1917. March, 1976. Professor Goldberg looks at the role Lenin played in the Russian Revolutions of 1917, from February and the fall of the Tsar through October and the triumph of the Soviets. Thanks to the Brecht Forum Archive (brechtforum.org/harvey-goldber...) for all the available audio of Harvey Goldberg's lectures. "These recordings wer...
Harvey Goldberg Lectures! The Tragedy of the German Communist Party
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In this lecture from March, 1976 Harvey Goldberg looks at the history of the German Communist Party, the largest and most powerful outside of the Soviet Union, from its inception in 1920 until its destruction by the Nazi regime in 1933. Thanks to the Brecht Forum Archive (brechtforum.org/harvey-goldber...) for all the available audio of Harvey Goldberg's lectures. "These recordings were made by...
Harvey Goldberg Lectures! Rosa Luxemburg and the Mass Strike
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Harvey Goldberg Lectures! Marxism and History. Rosa Luxemburg and the Mass Strike, February 1976. Professor Goldberg looks at Rosa Luxemburg's understanding of the Mass Strike, its historical context, and the debates around it. Thanks to the Brecht Forum Archive (brechtforum.org/harvey-goldber...) for all the available audio of Harvey Goldberg's lectures. "These recordings were made by students...
Martin Luther King Speaks! Address at the Selma to Montgomery March. March 25, 1965
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Martin Luther King Speaks! Jim Crow, Poor Whites, Racial Capitalism, & Black Freedom Speech at the Conclusion of the Selma to Montgomery March March 25, 1965 My dear and abiding friends, Ralph Abernathy, and to all of the distinguished Americans seated here on the rostrum, my friends and co-workers of the state of Alabama, and to all of the freedom-loving people who have assembled here this aft...
Coretta Scott King Speaks! Ten Commandments on Vietnam
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Coretta Scott King Speaks! Ten Commandments on Vietnam
Coretta Scott King Speaks! Solidarity Day at Resurrection City
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Coretta Scott King Speaks! Solidarity Day at Resurrection City
James Baldwin Speaks! Social Change & The Writer's Responsibility
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James Baldwin Speaks! Social Change & The Writer's Responsibility
Harvey Goldberg Lectures! The Spartacist Uprising & the Murder of Rosa Luxemburg
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Harvey Goldberg Lectures! The Spartacist Uprising & the Murder of Rosa Luxemburg
Harvey Goldberg Lectures! Lenin the Revolutionary: Class and Party in Russia
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Harvey Goldberg Lectures! Lenin the Revolutionary: Class and Party in Russia
Harvey Goldberg Lectures! Lenin, The World War and The October Revolution
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Harvey Goldberg Lectures! Lenin, The World War and The October Revolution
Harvey Goldberg Lectures! After 1914: Luxemburg, Liebknecht and the Revolutionary Underground
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Harvey Goldberg Lectures! After 1914: Luxemburg, Liebknecht and the Revolutionary Underground
Harvey Goldberg Lectures! Jean Jaurès & Pre-War French Social Democracy
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Harvey Goldberg Lectures! Jean Jaurès & Pre-War French Social Democracy
Harvey Goldberg Lectures! Revolutionary Syndicalism in Pre-War France
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Harvey Goldberg Lectures! Revolutionary Syndicalism in Pre-War France
Harvey Goldberg Lectures! Rosa Luxemburg / The German Workers Movement
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Harvey Goldberg Lectures! Rosa Luxemburg / The German Workers Movement
Harvey Goldberg Lectures! Religion & Revolution: Martin Luther & Thomas Müntzer
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Harvey Goldberg Lectures! Religion & Revolution: Martin Luther & Thomas Müntzer
Harvey Goldberg Lectures! Marxism and History Calvinism & Capitalism
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Harvey Goldberg Lectures! Marxism and History Calvinism & Capitalism
Harvey Goldberg Lectures! Marxism and History: Beginnings of Capitalism
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Harvey Goldberg Lectures! Marxism and History: Beginnings of Capitalism
Harvey Goldberg Lectures! Marxism and History Vietnam Part Three 1945-1954
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Harvey Goldberg Lectures! Marxism and History Vietnam Part Three 1945-1954
Jason Molina Live 'What Comes After the Blues' Birmingham, 2006
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Jason Molina Live 'What Comes After the Blues' Birmingham, 2006
Magnolia Electric Company Live 'What Comes After the Blues' Iowa City, 2007
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Magnolia Electric Company Live 'What Comes After the Blues' Iowa City, 2007

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @calumiainmacdonald17
    @calumiainmacdonald17 5 днів тому

    This will have 100x more views in 20 years, I guarantee it

  • @ThoseBackPages
    @ThoseBackPages 7 днів тому

    i saw them literally a week before this show at The Knitting Factory in NYC on 4/16/2005. This is a week later on the other half of the country! Love them so much.

  • @bigdrizz_nycnyc4098
    @bigdrizz_nycnyc4098 10 днів тому

    Y dont they teach us about this legend ! .

  • @peterkleinman3526
    @peterkleinman3526 10 днів тому

    Robert Williams was an inspiration for the Black Panther Party formed by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.

  • @Philani-wg7yw
    @Philani-wg7yw 11 днів тому

    Undying Spirit of Bantu....

  • @JamesVescovi
    @JamesVescovi 20 днів тому

    Who is the Mr. Wechsler she refers to? Is it Herbert Wechsler of Columbia Law School?

  • @JamesVescovi
    @JamesVescovi 20 днів тому

    Who is the Mr. Wechsler that she's referring to? Herbert Wechsler of Columbia Law School?

  • @DimitriRavel
    @DimitriRavel 22 дні тому

    Fucking genius drink you under the table ❤

  • @johninfl
    @johninfl 22 дні тому

    Whenever you try to bring everyone together, and people come together, they start asking about solutions to real problems, like these evil three-letter agencies and the military industrial complex. That's when they take you out.

  • @TR-yi8up
    @TR-yi8up 24 дні тому

    Who’s playing the organ on this?

  • @Findaway2day
    @Findaway2day 24 дні тому

    You know what you're taking about and everybody else does to. Preach the truth and tell the true history of our people and this country 🙌

  • @jannariley3254
    @jannariley3254 25 днів тому

    I love listening to MLK . I try to listen to him weekly.

  • @eduardokruger2228
    @eduardokruger2228 27 днів тому

    too bad this guy had such a tragic life...

  • @adammorton3424
    @adammorton3424 27 днів тому

  • @AdinelmaPrintesRamos
    @AdinelmaPrintesRamos 27 днів тому

    amei 🎉

  • @donbrown2974
    @donbrown2974 29 днів тому

    [:"Thank you."]

  • @donbrown2974
    @donbrown2974 29 днів тому

    [:"Beyond Vietnam"]

  • @sociologie4507
    @sociologie4507 29 днів тому

    More than good enough! Epic! Legendary! Fuck it, when an artist is that underated and all, this is down right a cult status live set! What a talented group of artists around JM. Respect.

  • @DavidLopez-zu5st
    @DavidLopez-zu5st Місяць тому

    He is one of the greatest examples of how the human spirit can prevail against opposition.

  • @rahlinrigsby
    @rahlinrigsby Місяць тому

    no man, you journey on

  • @BryanAdamsScott
    @BryanAdamsScott Місяць тому

    I love MLK,he was just like a prophet to us,but we failed to listen to what he was preaching 😢😢,RIPMLK...

  • @anaperezgonzalez4422
    @anaperezgonzalez4422 Місяць тому

    ❤❤❤

  • @joetursi9573
    @joetursi9573 Місяць тому

    A great man. All America football at Rutgers, law school grad,opera singer and activist.

  • @user-ew4jo3nv1e
    @user-ew4jo3nv1e Місяць тому

    trump can spew is racist nonsense via social media and get away with it trump threaten a BLOOD BATH! if he don't win the election! and nothing is done about that, but when I comment on the real truth about racism I get threaten to be ban from speaking on the platforms for speaking the truth! trump has been charged with rape and fraud and countless other charges but still can comment to the world how he feel, and threaten everybody who disagree with his RHETORIC and continue to be able to o so, I don't see him being banned from speaking his BS!

  • @user-ew4jo3nv1e
    @user-ew4jo3nv1e Місяць тому

    Al black people should see this video and look up Fannie Lou Hamer and hoe she was beaten by the police in the 1960's fighting for human rights and civil rights and the right to vote, lets just go back a few years and you black face folks who say there's no racism in America, GOOGLE FANNIE HAMER and listen to her story! why MLKJ is dead ?

  • @marrrtymar
    @marrrtymar Місяць тому

    He spoke and acted with the Holy Spirit from God. Long live Dr. King

  • @sunmamadress7476
    @sunmamadress7476 Місяць тому

    We are beautiful by nature of life Fighting flesh and blood Why take our blood We need our blood Be sweet All praise due to Allah god Jehovah Higher power smiling

  • @tarikabaraka2251
    @tarikabaraka2251 Місяць тому

    Robert Franklin Williams fue un líder estadounidense de derechos civiles y autor mejor conocido por servir como presidente del capítulo de la NAACP en Monroe, Carolina del Norte en la década de 1950 y en 1961. Logró integrar la biblioteca pública local y la piscina en Monroe.

  • @achaenoh4674
    @achaenoh4674 Місяць тому

    Today the Negros are really free indeed thank you so much Dr King I wish you were alive to witness this drastically change you stood FOR. You Ever remain in our Hearts for ever, your posterity shall never be erase from history

  • @achaenoh4674
    @achaenoh4674 Місяць тому

    We love you so much Rev Dr MLK may your soul continue to rest in peace in Boosome of the lord we shall meet again. When I get to heaven I will meet with you Sir

  • @DavidHuber63
    @DavidHuber63 Місяць тому

    Supreme Human being.💜🙏🏼

  • @tarikabaraka2251
    @tarikabaraka2251 Місяць тому

    En agosto de 1971 era tiroteado por sus carceleros George Jackson, preso negro politizado en la cárcel y simpatizante del. Partido Pantera Negra.

  • @moniquehamblin4381
    @moniquehamblin4381 Місяць тому

    Dr. King is weeping,preaching,turning over and pleading "STOP KILLING EACH OTHER, WE MARCHED FOR YOU"❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @cephasboanerge5582
    @cephasboanerge5582 Місяць тому

    THIS MAN WAS PHENOMENON!!!

  • @AlexanderVerney-Elliott-ep7dw
    @AlexanderVerney-Elliott-ep7dw 2 місяці тому

    What Farrell Dobbs states about Teamsters Union Leadership directly refers to Mark Davison, Fred Zuckerman and Sean O'Brien: “A revolutionary leadership has always got to be a team. You can't lead a showdown fight where you’re fighting for keeps, if you're going to have a leadership that’s composed of strutting, posturing individuals’ stars who are more concerned about showing what a wheeler dealer they are, than of selflessly giving everything that's in them to the best of their ability to help along the battle as a whole… The farther a bureaucrat is away from the rank and file worker at the point of production, the more class-collaborationist, the more reactionary, the more dictatorial he will be; but the closer the bureaucrat is to daily contact with the workers at the point of production, the more he is subject to pressures that make it difficult for him to be quite such a collaborator with the boss, quite such a dictator over the workers.” Davison, Zuckerman, and Sean O'Brien are presently facilitating shift closures and mass layoffs at UPS as it uses AI-automation to destroy its unionized workforce. Davison, Zuckerman, and O'Brien serve the interests only of the Chief Executive Officer of UPS, Carol B. Tomé.

  • @odiodi3289
    @odiodi3289 2 місяці тому

    In the Igbo-Biafran tradition - defiant against oppression and determined to achieve freedom in the name of God!

  • @nwadi6408
    @nwadi6408 2 місяці тому

    The brilliance and eloquence of the late Ossie Davis. Unmatched.

  • @Jehovahremembers07
    @Jehovahremembers07 2 місяці тому

    "Let us march..."

  • @bobmcgahey1280
    @bobmcgahey1280 2 місяці тому

    be nice if he gave faulkner some credit

  • @user-id9bk8ss9m
    @user-id9bk8ss9m 2 місяці тому

    🎉🎉🎉😊 listen

  • @AlmasJSami
    @AlmasJSami 2 місяці тому

    I remember the Thursday night that he was killed

  • @psikeyhackr6914
    @psikeyhackr6914 2 місяці тому

    We need a rational paradigm to justify a common objective, that would not provide a target, like Patrice Lumumba. How to provide that paradigm? *When Africa Awakes* (1920) by Hubert Harrison Harrison worked with Marcus Garvey but was not a fan. *Black Man's Burden* (1961) by Mack Reynolds Both are free on the Internet. *The Tyranny of Words* (1938) by Stuart Chase George Orwell mentioned Chase in an essay on politics. He published the book, A New Deal, shortly before FDR's famous speech. He was a member of FDR's brain trust.

  • @thisvexesme
    @thisvexesme 2 місяці тому

    baffles me that this was the day i was born

  • @franklinarguedas4832
    @franklinarguedas4832 2 місяці тому

    America is the most evil nation, the British people are evil thieves, just read history and you will find the evidence..

  • @winter4953
    @winter4953 2 місяці тому

    Ukraine Peace Treaty

  • @kayriz5838
    @kayriz5838 2 місяці тому

    What a mind & that at the age of 92 !!

  • @user-lf1hz3yh8t
    @user-lf1hz3yh8t 2 місяці тому

    America loose a great leader that ever

  • @jerryjordan6731
    @jerryjordan6731 2 місяці тому

    Ralph Abernathy was an informant to J Edgar Hoover who killed Martin.

  • @jerryjordan6731
    @jerryjordan6731 2 місяці тому

    This man was awesome!!!!!

  • @apt823
    @apt823 3 місяці тому

    🙏🏼