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Collection Spotlight: Wade McCree's contribution to Detroit and the nation
Posted February 15th, 2011 by ljones
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- Affirmative action
- African Americans
- African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--History--20th century
- Civil rights
- Civil rights--America--Cases
- Collection spotlight
- Desegregation
- Detroit--race relations
- Education, Higher
- Human rights
- Integration
- McCree, Wade H. (Wade Hampton), 1920-1987
- Michigan--politics and government
- Minorities--Civil rights
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Race relations
- School integration
- Segregation
- Urban Affairs
- Wayne County (Mich.)--History
- Williams, G. Mennen, 1911-1988
The Walter P. Reuther Library continues to celebrate Black History Month by highlighting the life of Wade McCree and his papers.
In his work as a judge, appointed official, and educator coupled with his sense of civic responsibility, Wade Hampton McCree, Jr. made a unique contribution to the Detroit metropolitan area and beyond. His success in these areas are noteworthy by themselves, but even more so given the barriers to success experienced by African Americans read more »
Subject Focus: African American History at the Reuther Library
Posted February 1st, 2011 by wlefevre
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- Affirmative action
- African Americans
- Civil rights
- Civil rights--America--Cases
- Crockett, George W.
- Detroit (Mich.)
- Detroit (Mich.) -- Riot, 1967
- Detroit--race relations
- Detroit--social conditions
- Hate crimes
- Human rights
- Integration
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- Michigan Organization for Human Rights
- Michigan--History
- Michigan--politics and government
- Minorities--Civil rights
- Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005
- Police-community relations
- Race relations
- Racism
- School integration
- Segregation
- Subject focus
- United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964.
- Wayne County (Mich.)--History
The Reuther Library celebrates African American History Month with a look at some of the significant collections housed in the library that deal with African American history.
A gem from Rosa Parks’s collection is a set of her hand written notes from her time at the Highlander Folk School in 1955, shortly before the Montgomery Bus Boycott. These notes showcase her read more »
Book Announcement: Punching Out
Posted January 20th, 2011 by jruss
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Paul Clemens, Assistant to the Dean of Wayne State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has just published a book, Punching Out: One Year in a Closing Auto Plant. The book focuses on the Budd Company, which at different times in its 94-year history built steel train cars read more »
Introducing new Wayne State University Archivist Casey Westerman
Posted January 20th, 2011 by mwallace
The Walter P. Reuther Library is pleased to announce the appointment of Casey Westerman as the new University Archivist. He will be in charge of the archival records of Wayne State University here at the Reuther. Casey is originally from Kankakee, Illinois. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for his Bachelors in History and Philosophy of Science and his Masters in Library Science. He also recently achieved read more »
