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Studs Terkel  

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  • Studs Terkel is a writer, labor activist, oral historian, and radio personality. Born Louis Terkel on May 6, 1912, in New York City, he moved to Chicago early in life, to which he credits his populist view of the world by observing the workers, unionists, and immigrants that went by his family's boardinghouse. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Terkel, Studs]

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