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[Podcast] Detroit Industry and 'The Mural'

Dr. Jay Cephas considers two Depression-era murals in Detroit and their contrasting messaging about workers, labor, and power. Diego Rivera’s famed Detroit Industry murals, commissioned by Edsel Ford for the Detroit Institute of Arts i ...

Podcasts - teller - 09/03/2024 - 06:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

[Podcast] Detroit Remains: Using Historical Archeology to Connect Detroit’s Past to Its Present

Dr. Krysta Ryzewski explains how historical archaeology digs at famous Detroit locales – including the Little Harry speakeasy, the Blue Bird Inn, and the Grande Ballroom – have clarified how underrepresented communities of Detroit experie ...

Podcasts - teller - 07/30/2024 - 07:18 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

NAACP Detroit Branch Records

‹ previous 858 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  UR000244 Use restriction:  To use complaint files in Part 3, Series XVI (Boxes 89, 90), researchers must sign a Restricted Use Statement. ...

Abstracts - drice - 01/06/2020 - 11:07 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Collections Spotlight: “Out of the House: Detroit Women’s Organizations in the 20th Century”

... Detroit in 1991 to preserve the documents of Detroit’s organized Jewish community, including large and small agencies of ...

Blog entry - teller - 05/08/2015 - 12:05 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Reuther Staff Directory

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs 5401 Cass Ave Detroit MI 48202 313-577-4024 Direct reference questions to: reutherreference@wayne.edu Please reference Wayne State's University Library Staff ...

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Detroit Board of Education Detroit Public Schools Records

‹ previous 1624 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  WSR000681 Extent:  61.5 linear feet (123 MB) Date:  1860-1980, bulk 1920-1965 The Detroit Board of Education/Detro ...

Abstracts - cwesterman - 04/27/2012 - 15:41 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Detroit Commission on Community Relations (DCCR) / Human Rights Department Records

‹ previous 377 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  UR000267 Extent:  158 linear feet (123 SB, 66 MB), 3 OS, 1 Scrapbook Date:  1940-1984 The Commission on Community R ...

Abstracts - drice - 07/26/2019 - 11:36 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

HistoryPin Tour: Detroit's Chinese Community

... stories, and so cannot possibly tell the complete story of Detroit’s Chinese community. For more information on this topic, consider ...

Blog entry - eclemens - 07/10/2017 - 11:11 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

[Podcast] Detroit Under Fire: Police Violence and Racial Justice in the Civil Rights Era

Dr. Matthew Lassiter shares stories uncovered in Detroit Under Fire: Police Violence, Crime Politics, and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Civil Rights Era , a collaborative digital exhibit created by undergraduate history studen ...

Podcasts - teller - 03/04/2024 - 11:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Subject Focus: Detroit Adventure and the first Noel Night

On December 7, 2013, the forty-first annual Noel Night will take place in Midtown Detroit. The first Noel Night, on December 19, 1973, was a production of Detroit Adventure, a coalition of organizations that formed in 1959 to promote cultura ...

Blog entry - cwesterman - 11/02/2018 - 09:42 - 0 comments - 0 attachments