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  [Prologue High School: Coal Mining Mural 2]

  Chicago, CLIR, CTVN, Guerrilla Television

  Interviews and musical performances celebrating Appalachian culture in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood alongside the unveiling of a student-painted mural depicting coal miners.

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  [Prologue High School: Coal Mining Mural 1]

  Chicago, CLIR, CTVN, Guerrilla Television

  An interview with Marion Kline, a former coal miner who moved to Chicago after retirement, conducted at an event celebrating Appalachian culture in Uptown and the unveiling of a mural based on Kline’s experiences.

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  [Prologue High School: Coal Mining Mural 3]

  Chicago, CLIR, CTVN, Guerrilla Television

  Interviews with high school students at Prologue High School who painted a mural depicting the struggles of coal miners, as well as with former coal miners who have relocated to Chicago.

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  [Howard Zinn raw #43: B-roll and newsreel footage various places and times]

  Howard Zinn

  Filmmaker Denis Mueller visits monuments and a museum near the site of the Ludlow Massacre. Also includes some newsreel footage.

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  [Howard Zinn raw #21: Zinn and Studs Terkel explore United States’ divisions]

  Black, Communities, Howard Zinn

  A conversation between Studs Terkel and Howard Zinn at an alternative media event Berkeley, California. They speak about activism, racism, and making change in the United States.

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  [Howard Zinn raw #16: Noel Beasley, Jim Jenkins, and Charles King speak]

  Howard Zinn

  Howard Zinn attends an Awards Dinner for the Eugene V. Debs Foundation held at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana.

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  Boris Ross #1

  Chicago, CLIR, Guerrilla Television

  Shot for Communications for Change’s “Documenting Social History: Chicago’s Elderly Speak” oral history series. Boris Ross, an immigrant from the Soviet Union, describes his experiences as a union organizer in Chicago during the 1920s.

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  [Labor History Workshop: FASH]

  Chicago, CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Kartemquin Films, Politics

  An organizing workshop led by activist Staughton Lynd at Indiana University Northwest. This tape features a presentation by representatives from FASH (Fraternal Order of Steel Haulers), an alternative to the Teamsters for independent truck drivers.