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[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

(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:  ...

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(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 ...

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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 ...

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[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 ...

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(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 ...

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(26111) Riots, Rebellions, Arrests, 1967

Police officers search a car on Charlevoix at Gladwin on Detroit's East Side and find three men with a gun. In the background Arc Tobacco and Grocery Distributers is in view. Courtesy Detroit News Collection. Date:  1967-07-28 ...

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(25990) Riots, Rebellions, Arson, 1967

Fires from burning buildings on Detroit's West Side light up the early morning sky on July 24, 1967. Spectators watch from a distance despite the late hour. Courtesy Detroit News Collection. Date:  1967-07-24 Physdesc: ...

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(35798) Riots, Rebellions, U.S. Army, 1967

... School, located on Fairview Street near Mack Avenue on Detroit’s East Side. The troops were stationed at the school throughout the ...

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