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Mechanical Engineer To Booth Babe and Back Again: The Tragicomic Career of Wayne State Engineering Alum Lucille Pieti

Society of Women Engineers archivist Troy Eller English shares the tragicomic story of Lucille Pieti, 1950 mechanical engineering alum and Miss Wayne University. Sidelined in technical writing despite her degree and experience, Pieti found he ...

Podcasts - teller - 08/06/2020 - 11:42 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

[Podcast] Hillbilly Highway: Charting White Migration from Appalachia to the Industrial Midwest

Dr. Max Fraser shares the often overlooked story of the “hillbilly highway,” the route nearly eight million poor, rural, white Americans took in the 20th century from economically depressed areas in the Southeastern and Southern United St ...

Podcasts - teller - 06/14/2024 - 13:19 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

[Podcast] Latinx Encounters: How Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans Made the Modern Midwest

Dr. Juan I. Mora examines three groups of Latinxs as they used postwar migration, temporary guest-worker programs, and agricultural labor to redefine migrant power, justice, and rights in the twentieth century Midwest, and particularly in Mic ...

Podcasts - teller - 06/29/2023 - 08:47 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Congratulations to the Recipients of the 2024 Sam Fishman Travel Grant!

The Walter P. Reuther Library is proud to announce the recipients of the 2024 Sam Fishman Travel Grant . These annual grants provide up to $1,000 to support travel to the Reuther Library to access archival records related to the American labor mo ...

Blog entry - ageraci - 09/09/2024 - 08:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Arthur Elder Papers

‹ previous 467 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  LP000075 Extent:  10 linear feet (20 MB) Date:  1921-1953 Correspondence, reports, and a scrapbook relating to the ...

Abstracts - drice - 09/20/2011 - 09:09 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Battle of the Overpass

On May 26, 1937, nearly sixty UAW members from Local 174 arrived at Ford Motor Company’s River Rouge Plant to pass out leaflets, with city permit in hand, as part of a campaign to secure union representation for Rouge workers. Seve ...

Blog entry - kchinery - 08/16/2017 - 14:40 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(35814) Riots, Rebellions, Blind Pigs, 12th Street, 1967

Exterior view of the 12th Street building that housed Economy Printing and United Community League for Civic Action, the blind pig whose raid sparked the beginning of the unrest, was located in the upper floor. Courtesy of the Tony Spina Photographs ...

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Collection Focus: Wayne University Illustrated Map, 1939 - Part 1

This is the first in a series of four blog posts annotating Jerry Peacock's 1939 cartoon map of the Wayne University campus. View the entire map here. In 1939, Wayne University undergraduate and newspaper cartoonist Jerome R. Pea ...

Blog entry - cwesterman - 02/11/2020 - 17:11 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(35776) Riots, Rebellions, 12th Streets, 1967

A group of men and children run down 12th Street during the first day of the civil unrest. Image Courtesy of the Tony Spina Photographs. Date:  1967-07-23 Physdesc:  Photo negative Photographer:  ...

Image - eclemens - 05/10/2017 - 16:06 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(26087) Riots, Rebellions, 12th Street, DPW, 1967

Department of Public Works employees are guarded against sniper fire by members of the Detroit Police Department as they clear away the rubble from buildings burned along 12th Street on Detroit's West Side. Courtesy Detroit News Collection ...

Image - eclemens - 05/06/2017 - 09:38 - 0 comments - 3 attachments