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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

Digital Collection Announcement: Detroit Metro Times (1980-1995)

The Walter P. Reuther Library and the Wayne State University Library System are pleased to announce a recently launched digital collection. Taken from a series of the presently unprocessed Ron Williams Papers, this online resource spans back issues of t ...

Blog entry - pneirink - 03/06/2026 - 10:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

[Podcast] Polish American Women and Detroit’s 1938 Federal Screw Works Strike

... supplier Federal Screw Works in 1938, when women from Detroit’s Polish community led the fight to preserve both their ...

Podcasts - teller - 01/16/2026 - 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

[Podcast] Remembering the Detroit Feminist Women’s Health Center

Dr. Beth Widmaier Capo discusses the Detroit Feminist Women’s Health Center and the role health practitioners there—including her mother—played in empowering women to understand their bodies and take control of their health in the 1970s ...

Podcasts - teller - 12/22/2025 - 12:38 - 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] 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

Scholarships

The Sam Fishman Travel Grant The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs provides awards up to $1,000 to support travel to the Reuther Library to access archival records related to the American labor movement. The award is named in ho ...

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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