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AFT Local 698: East Detroit Federation of Teachers Records

‹ previous 72 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  LR000256 Extent:  4 linear feet (8 MB) Date:  1953-1964 Teachers of East Detroit, Michigan, were first organized in ...

Abstracts - dgolodner - 01/12/2011 - 15:02 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Stories from the Collections: The last portraits of Jimmy Hoffa

On the morning of July 30, 1975, Tony Spina, the Chief Photographer for the Detroit Free Press , had no idea that a routine assignment would connect him to one of the defining mysteries of the late 20th century: the disappearance of former ...

Blog entry - eclemens - 12/15/2025 - 08:58 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Detroit Adventure Records

‹ previous 1622 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  WSR002382 Extent:  1 linear foot Date:  1959-1980 Detroit Adventure was a coalition of arts organizations formed i ...

Abstracts - cwesterman - 01/10/2013 - 15:46 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

The Popular Crimetown Podcast Digs into Detroit Crime by Digging into the Reuther Library’s Collections

The new season of the hit podcast Crimetown will use material from various collections at the Walter P. Reuther Library. Each season of Crimetown examines the “culture of crime” in a different American city. This upcoming se ...

Blog entry - mwallace - 02/07/2019 - 09:02 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(28771) Detroit Housing Has not Kept Up with Population

This chart appears on page 15 of a pamphlet entitled Why Race Riots? Lessons from Detroit , produced by the Public Affairs Committee and written by Earl Brown in 1944. The pamphlet examines the reasons behind Detroit's 1943 race riot. The pamphlet ap ...

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Developing Urban Detroit Area Research Project (Doxiadis) Records

‹ previous 404 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  UR000636 Extent:  40 linear feet Date:  1910-1974 The Developing Urban Detroit Area Research Project (UDA) began in ...

Abstracts - drice - 06/30/2011 - 08:38 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

(27842) Prohibition, Smuggling, Detroit, 1920s

An ingenious, anonymous man demonstrates for reporters how one can transport flasks of alcohol throughout the city during Prohibition. Date:  Circa 1920s Physdesc:  Photo negative Photographer:  De ...

Image - eclemens - 01/13/2012 - 11:52 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

HistoryPin: Tour the Detroit Sit-Down Strikes of 1937

... and working conditions were common causes of concern for Detroit’s workforce, yet most employees feared they had no recourse. Long ...

Blog entry - eclemens - 11/27/2018 - 16:37 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

A special message from the Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs

The Walter P. Reuther Library was founded with seed money from the United Automobile Workers, and is the largest labor archive and one of the leading urban archives in America. As such, the Reuther is committed to preserving the vital historical reco ...

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Detroit Industrial Mission Records

‹ previous 384 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  LR000131 Extent:  44.25 linear feet (4 MB, 41 SB, 1 OS) Date:  1954-1978, bulk 1962-1973 The Detroit Industrial Mis ...

Abstracts - drice - 12/01/2015 - 12:04 - 0 comments - 1 attachment