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(8407) 1941 Ford Strike, violence, Dearborn, Michigan

Striking auto workers beat a “scab” worker as he tries to cross the picket line and enter the Ford Rouge Plant, Dearborn, Michigan. "The Picket Line", captured by Milton Brooks, a photographer for the Detroit News, was the winner of the first Pulit ...

Image - eclemens - 03/22/2011 - 09:56 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(3025) Sports, Boat Races, Gold Cup, 1970

1970. Detroit, MI. Tony Spina photographs power boat racer Roy Duby during a trial run of the Gold Cup Power Boat Race on the Detroit River. Photographer’s note: “During a trial run for the Gold Cup power boat race held in the Detroit River, I ...

Image - eclemens - 06/29/2012 - 11:26 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(24721) UAW, Chrysler, Contract Negotiations, 1958

1958. Detroit, Michigan. The Chrysler negotiation team meets to meet to discuss strategy during the 1958 UAW-Chrysler contract negotiations. Walter Reuther is at far right. Third from right is Doug Fraser. Date:  1958 ...

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(27960) Agyeman (Cleage), Shrine of the Black Madonna, 1976

Rev. Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman (formerly Albert Cleage), political organizer and founder of the Shrine of the Black Madonna, poses for a Detroit News photographer in front of the Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural Center and Bookstore. Date:& ...

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(27852) Prohibtion, Windsor, Canada, 1929

Thirsty men, presumably American, line up outside of a shop in Windsor, Ontario where alcohol is legally sold. Federal Prohibition was repealed in the province of Ontario in 1927, leaving a door open for Detroiters willing to travel across the Detroit R ...

Image - eclemens - 01/17/2012 - 09:14 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(31881) Posters & Graphics, "United Farm Workers Great Lakes Mobilization", 1970s

Poster details a gathering of UFW members and associates from the Great Lakes Region at the Holy Trinity Grade School in Detroit from June 18th-20th. Image depicts hands with “Michigan,” “Ohio” and “Pennsylvania” along with two other hands h ...

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(79698) Ethnic Communities, Chinese, War Industry, 1944

Song Yee, Bob Yee and William Hing work the Curtiss Helldiver bomber wing line in a Hudson Motor Car Company plant in Detroit. Behind them a sign reads "From Detroit to Tokio is 6,516 miles by air. Victory for the Allies is not too far off. We Chinese w ...

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(25412) Civil Rights, Demonstrations, "March on Washington," 1963

... Freedom.” This banner was also used two months prior in Detroit’s “March to Freedom” civil rights march. Date:  ...

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(25223) UAW Organizing, Violence, Battle of the Overpass, Dearborn, 1937

An unidentified UAW organizer is knocked to the ground and beaten by a group of Ford Service Department employees during the Battle of the overpass. Third from left with his back to the camera is Sam Taylor. Date:  1937-05-26 ...

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(27982) Republic of New Afrika (RNA), Milton Henry (Gaidi Abiodun Obadele), 1967

Milton R. Henry (Gaidi Abiodun Obadale) at a forum with (from left) the Rev. Hubert G. Locke, former administrative assistant to the Detroit Commissioner of Police, and Newsweek reporter John Dotson. Date:  1967-10-19 Phys ...

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