Oral History Interview, Frank Emspak (682)

Abstract

In his 2004 interview with Maurice Better, Frank Emspak talks about his employment, beginning in 1991, at the School for Workers. He speaks about teaching courses on union planning, his interest in making trade unions more effective, budgetary dilemmas for the School for Workers, establishing a news and radio station, his ideas on the necessity of the university reordering its priorities, and the loss of manufacturing jobs in Wisconsin. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives and Records Management oral history collection.

In his two 2012 interviews with Troy Reeves, Frank Emspak talked about his early life from growing up in New York state to attending school at UW-Madison. He talked of the following time periods (1950s, 1960s, and 1970s) and topics: Yonkers, New York; McCarthyism; UW-Madison Zoology & History Department; and the campus’ student protest movement, including the Dow Riot (October 1967) & Black Strike (February 1969). This interview was conducted for inclusion into the UW-Madison Archives oral history collection with the Sterling Hall Bombing - Wisconsin Story Project oral history project.