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Labor@Wayne: John Fabian Witt on The Radical Fund (MI)

Date and Time

Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 4:00 PM until 6:00 PM Central Time (US & Canada) (UTC-06:00)

Location

Walter P. Reuther Library
5401 Cass Ave.
Detroit, MI  48202
USA

Category

Labor History

Registration Info

Registration is not Required

About this event

November 12, 2025 Historian and legal scholar John Fabian Witt, Yale University Law School, presents from his new book, The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America, on the Garland Fund; an organization with ties to Detroit and research from the Reuther collections.  Witt is the author of The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law (2004), and other award-winning books.  Sponsored by the Fraser Center for Workplace Issues, the Department of History, and the Law School.  4 p.m. Reuther Library 2nd Floor Conference Room.