 My name is Austin McCoy. I'm a Rackham student in the Department of History and I study 20th century U.S. history. I am writing a dissertation on how progressives in Detroit, Cleveland, and Chicago responded to plant closings during the 1970s and 1980s. It's because I was interested in what happened to the social movements after the 1960s, so civil rights, black power, feminism, and the anti-war movements. My experience at Rackham has been really good. I have been able to use funding, whether it's the research fellowships, to be able to go and do research in all of these places in Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, going to archives in Wisconsin. I would like to thank you for supporting us grad students at the University of Michigan and for being able to help us pursue our work.