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Michigan Black History Bibliography

Michigan Black History Bibliography (MBHB)

Sometime in 1974, Roberta McBride, an archivist at Wayne State University’s Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs (later called the Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs), created the Michigan Black History Bibliography (MBHB). The card file contains hundreds of bibliographic references to sources illuminating the history of African Americans in Michigan. Prior to her tenure at Wayne State, McBride served as a librarian at a number of institutions, including the Detroit Public Library, Kansas State University, and the United Automobile Workers (UAW) Union (Roberta McBride Vertical File, Walter P. Reuther Library), which has been scanned and made available online for your research purposes.

Michigan Labor History Society

Michigan Labor History Society

The real heroes of Labor are the men and women whose devotion and sacrifice made it possible to win a better life. Too often their contribution is not recorded and is forgotten. The Society believes that there is a dramatic story of dedication, which needs to be told in every union workplace in this state.