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(79642) Ethnic Communities, Chinese, Schools, Detroit, 1952

Kim Lee (7), Lim Shaw "Tom" Lee (10) stand at the front door of the Chinese School of Detroit. Date:  1952-10-20 Physdesc:  Photograph Photographer:  Detroit News Staff (Metro Detroit Ethnic ...

Image - eclemens - 08/01/2023 - 08:31 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(26953) Poor People's March, Detroit, 1968

Mayor Jerome Cavanagh talks with participants in the Poor People’s March. Date:  1968 Physdesc:  Photograph Photographer:  Unknown (Cavanagh, Jerome P., Detroit (Mich.), Detroit--politics ...

Image - eclemens - 03/02/2018 - 11:01 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(27955) Angela Davis, Demonstrations, Detroit, 1971

Members of the activist group Detroit Youth Against War and Fascism hold banner that reads "The people will free Angela Davis and Ruchell Mage" during U.S. president Richard Nixon's appearance at Cobo Hall. Date:  1971-09-21 ...

Image - eclemens - 02/05/2013 - 04:27 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(24949) Detroit Federation of Teachers, Local 231, AFT

Detroit Federation of Teachers, Local 231, AFT, (L to R) Governor G. Mennen Williams (Mich), Mrs. Betty Baxter, President, Detroit Board of Education, Mrs. Jessie Baxter, President of the Michigan Federation of Teachers, Dr. Cylvia A. Sorkin, John Sch ...

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(25696) Civil Rights, Demonstrations, "March to Freedom," Detroit, 1963

... Luther King, Jr. makes his way towards the front of Detroit’s Cobo Hall at the conclusion of the “Walk to Freedom” civil ...

Image - eclemens - 11/30/2017 - 11:47 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(1343) Buildings, Tiger Stadium, Navin Field, Baseball, Detroit, 1948

An aerial view of the first Detroit Tigers night game at Briggs Stadium, Detroit, Michigan Date:  1948 Physdesc:  Photograph Photographer:  Tony Spina (Architecture, Detroit (Mich.), Tony Sp ...

Image - eclemens - 07/15/2010 - 15:07 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(33820) Portraits, Children, Black Bottom, Detroit

... Part of a series of photographs taken of children in Detroit’s Near East Side. The area includes the Brush Park, Paradise Valley, ...

Image - eclemens - 08/19/2021 - 10:56 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(25756) Civil Rights, Demonstrations, "March to Freedom," Detroit, 1963

“Freedom Marchers” pass through Campus Martius in downtown Detroit as they make their way towards Cobo Hall for the conclusion of the “March to Freedom” civil rights demonstration. Demonstrators, escorted by Detroit Police, carry signs th ...

Image - eclemens - 03/05/2012 - 10:14 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(1748) Boats, "The Montrose", Accidents, Detroit River, Michigan, 1962

Capt. Ralph Eyre-Walker stands on the side of his wrecked British freighter, "The Montrose". The freighter collided with a cement barge and sank in the Detroit River just downstream of the Ambassador Bridge, Detroit, Michigan. Photographer's note: ...

Image - eclemens - 06/30/2011 - 11:01 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(28641) Riots, Housing, Sojourner Truth, Detroit Police, 1942

Detroit Police attempt to disperse a crowd of white men, some of whom are armed with bats, from the area surrounding the Sojourner Truth Housing Projects. The men wanted to keep their neighborhood segregated from the African American families who were p ...

Image - eclemens - 06/15/2012 - 04:59 - 0 comments - 3 attachments