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(25249) UAW Organizing, Battle of the Overpass, Dearborn, 1937

UAW organizers, members of the UAW Local 174 Women's Auxiliary and their supporters are forced back from the Ford Rouge Plant and into the Detroit Street Railway waiting area by Ford Service Department employees during the Battle of the Overpass. ...

Image - eclemens - 05/20/2011 - 14:52 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(4322) Purple Gang, Arrests, Burnstein, 1940

Purple Gang leader Abe Burnstein at the Detroit Police Department. August 14, 1940. Detroit, MI. Date:  1940-08-14 Physdesc:  Photograph Photographer:  Detroit Police Department staff (J ...

Image - mbanes - 04/07/2020 - 16:55 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(25248) UAW Organizing, Battle of the Overpass, Dearborn, 1937

UAW organizers, members of the UAW Local 174 Women's Auxiliary and their supporters are forced back from the Ford Rouge Plant and into the Detroit Street Railway waiting area by Ford Service Department employees during the Battle of the Overpass. ...

Image - eclemens - 05/20/2011 - 14:55 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(27958) Cleage (Agyeman), Shrine of the Black Madonna, 1973

The Rev. Albert Cleage (later Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman), political organizer and founder of the Shrine of the Black Madonna, speaks before a crowd at an unidentified event. Date:  1973-1-17 Physdesc:  Photograph ...

Image - eclemens - 02/05/2013 - 05:52 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(28443) Portraits, Royal Family, Princess Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Windsor, 1951

Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip visit Windsor, Ontario during their 1951 tour of Canada. The Detroit River and the Detroit Skyline are in view in the background. Date:  1951 Physdesc:  Photograph P ...

Image - eclemens - 06/29/2012 - 12:23 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(28539) Martin Luther King, Civil Rights, Cobo Hall, 1962

A meeting of leaders from the civil rights movement, politics and organized labor at Detroit's Cobo Hall. Left to Right: US Senator Phil Hart, Martin Luther King Jr. Walter Reuther UAW. Arthur Goldberg (Sec of Labor) Emil Mazey UAW and Mayor Louis ...

Image - eclemens - 07/27/2012 - 11:31 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(6689) Classrooms, Interiors, Old Main, 1935

Students are seated at rows of long tables in an unidentified classroom in Wayne University's Old Main, Detroit, Michigan. Note: The blackboard in background has chalk graphic that reads “Penny Dance 5⊄.” Date:  1935 ...

Image - eclemens - 03/17/2011 - 07:41 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(28453) Portraits, Eleanor Clay Ford, 1972

Portrait of Eleanor Clay Ford, mother of Henry Ford II, taken at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Date:  1972 Physdesc:  Photograph Photographer:  Tony Spina (Ford Motor Company, Tony Spina - ...

Image - eclemens - 07/02/2012 - 10:32 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(27974) Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPPSD), Brown (Al-Amin), Undated

Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown), at far left, walks with two other men in what appears to be a bus station. Date:  Undated Physdesc:  Photo negative Photographer:  Detroit News Staff (African ...

Image - eclemens - 02/05/2013 - 15:55 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(28654) Catholic Church, Mother Teresa, 1979

Portrait of Mother Teresa, taken as she meditates during her 1979 visit to Detroit. She came to Michigan because her order, the Missionaries of Charity, opened a convent in Detroit. Later that year she was awarded the Noble Peace Prize. Date ...

Image - eclemens - 11/15/2018 - 17:55 - 0 comments - 3 attachments