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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

Seeking “Self-Determination” in Detroit: Housing, Race, and the Activism of the West Central Organization, 1964-1971

Dr. Anna E. Lindner discusses the rise and subsequent downfall of the West Central Organization in Detroit, a coalition of civil rights organizations, community groups, and church congregations that sought to bring attention to housing inequa ...

Podcasts - teller - 07/31/2025 - 08:53 - 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

[Podcast] Rise Up Detroit: Stories from the African American Struggle for Power

Dr. Peter Blackmer discusses the launch of Rise Up Detroit ( www.riseupdetroit.org ), a website documenting the stories of activists in the Civil Rights and Black Power movements in Detroit. The website uses extensive oral history interview ...

Podcasts - teller - 08/23/2019 - 09:18 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The 1943 Detroit Race Riot

... Riots . With America’s entry into World War II , Detroit’s auto factories were converted to manufacturing material for the war ... created by the War’s demand. Between 1940 and 1943, Detroit’s population increased by about 500,000—roughly a third of its ...

Blog entry - jruss - 10/01/2013 - 11:31 - 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

Detroit's Black Bottom and Paradise Valley Neighborhoods

... National Museum’s Library and Resource Center. Detroit’s Black Bottom and Paradise Valley neighborhoods provided both ... of the area’s inhabitants had migrated north to work in Detroit’s factories where they could make considerably more money than they ...

Blog entry - Public Relation... - 02/28/2017 - 10:43 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

NAACP Detroit Branch Records - An addition to a long history of fighting for civil rights and community improvement

The Walter P. Reuther Library is happy to announce an addition to the NAACP Detroit Branch Records collection. The Detroit Branch of the NAACP was established in 1912, making it one of the oldest branches in the country. Over the past century ...

Blog entry - srafferty - 03/30/2018 - 13:36 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

New Detroit, Inc. Records

‹ previous 889 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  UR000660 Extent:  232 linear feet (232 SB) Date:  1967-1975 On August 1, 1967, immediately following the Detroit ri ...

Abstracts - drice - 11/20/2019 - 12:53 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

[Podcast] Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit

Dr. Say Burgin explains that contrary to the common belief that white activists were purged from the Black freedom movement in the mid-1960 and 1970s, Black-led organizations in Detroit – including the Northern Student Movement, the City-Wi ...

Podcasts - teller - 07/25/2024 - 07:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments