Wayne State University's Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs has been awarded a grant to boost discovery and access to its oral histories of prominent leaders. The $109,000 grant was received from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. It will allow archivists to work on descriptions that will make 1,600 oral histories easier to discover by researchers. The histories have been donated to the library or conducted by staff members during the last four decades. They include interviews of civil rights and social activists Cesar Chavez and Grace Lee Boggs. "This grant will allow scholars to easily locate oral histories of labor leaders and individuals who tell their own stories in their own ways, bringing a new understanding of their lives and work," said Sandra Yee, dean of the Wayne State University Libraries. "Making these oral histories more accessible will be a huge benefit to researchers."

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