Oral History Interview with Wade Rathke

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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

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Oral History Interview with Wade Rathke

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