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Interviewer
Max Krochmal
Contributor
Rafael Delgadillo
Date of Interview
2025
Publication Date
7-2025
Narrator Birth Year
1948
Description
Wade Rathke is a long-time community and labor organizer. He grew up in New Orleans and was involved in civil rights and social justice activism from a young age. He helped found the community organization ACORN in 1970 and later established Local 100, an independent labor union, to organize workers in various industries. Rathke has been a central figure in progressive organizing in the South for over 50 years.
Disciplines
Oral History
Geographic Coverage
New Orleans
Time Periods
1970s to present
Duration
1:50:07
File Size
2.7 GB
Format
mp4
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Rathke, Wade and Krochmal, Max, "Oral History Interview with Wade Rathke" (2025). Economic Justice Research Lab Oral History Project. 3.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ejrloh/3
Comments
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