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Congratulations to Harriet Berg -- 100 years young

The Reuther Library extends its congratulations to Harriet Berg on becoming a centenarian this month. Berg has been a choreographer, teacher, performer and arts advocate in the Detroit area for many decades, especially known for her historica ...

Blog entry - aergas - 01/22/2025 - 10:21 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

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

(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 ...

Image - eclemens - 05/08/2017 - 13:49 - 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

Subject Focus: The Purple Gang

In the Winter 2012 semester, the Reuther Library worked with students in the Graduate Certificate in Archival Administration program at the Wayne State School of Library and Information Science to produce a series of student-writte ...

Blog entry - Public Relation... - 04/03/2013 - 09:53 - 0 comments - 0 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

[Podcast] Bargaining for the Common Good: Milton Tambor Reflects on 50 Years in Labor and Social Activism

Labor leader and social activist Milton Tambor discusses his life’s work in Detroit since the 1950s as a social worker; AFSCME local union president, staff representative and assistant education director; and teaching faculty in both labor ...

Podcasts - teller - 02/01/2022 - 19:46 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(35800) Riots, Rebellions, National Guard, Patrols, 1967

National Guardsmen patrol an unidentified street in Detroit during the Civil Unrest, Image courtesy of the Tony Spina Photographs. Date:  1967-07 Physdesc:  Photo negative Photographer:  Tony S ...

Image - eclemens - 05/11/2017 - 09:00 - 0 comments - 3 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

(35801) Riots, Rebellions, Police Patrols, Armoured Vehicles, 1967

Detroit Police Officers patrol the streets in an armoured vehicle, rifles drawn, during the Civil Unrest. Image courtesy of the Tony Spina Photographs Date:  1967-07 Physdesc:  Photo negative Photogr ...

Image - eclemens - 05/11/2017 - 09:02 - 0 comments - 3 attachments