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New Detroit, Inc. Records

‹ previous 889 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  UR000660 Extent:  232 linear feet (232 SB) Date:  1967-1975 On August 1, 1967, immediately following the Detroit ri ...

Abstracts - drice - 11/20/2019 - 12:53 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

[Podcast] Detroit Under Fire: Police Violence and Racial Justice in the Civil Rights Era

Dr. Matthew Lassiter shares stories uncovered in Detroit Under Fire: Police Violence, Crime Politics, and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Civil Rights Era , a collaborative digital exhibit created by undergraduate history studen ...

Podcasts - teller - 03/04/2024 - 11:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Subject Focus: The Windsor-Detroit Funnel: Prohibition in Detroit

... at the Windsor-Detroit Funnel. By 1929 rumrunning was Detroit’s second largest industry, netting $215 million per year. Even more ... ignored the law. The Michigan State Police famously raided Detroit’s Deutches Haus -- operating as a speakeasy at the time -- and found ...

Blog entry - teller - 12/07/2017 - 14:40 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

[Podcast] Schools and the Rise of Mass Incarceration in a Post-Brown World

Dr. Matt Kautz explores how evolving school disciplinary practices, changes in crime reporting, and political pressure in the decades following school desegregation led to the rise of student suspensions, expulsions, dropouts, and the school-to-prison p ...

Podcasts - teller - 07/14/2025 - 10:57 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

[Podcast] Coach of Champions: D.L. Holmes and the Making of Detroit's Track Stars

Dr. Keith Wunderlich shares the life and legacy of D.L. Holmes, athletic director of what is now Wayne State University from 1917 though 1958. With a meager budget and outdated equipment, Coach Holmes nurtured a generation of track and field ...

Podcasts - teller - 10/09/2025 - 07:54 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

[Podcast] Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit

Dr. Say Burgin explains that contrary to the common belief that white activists were purged from the Black freedom movement in the mid-1960 and 1970s, Black-led organizations in Detroit – including the Northern Student Movement, the City-Wi ...

Podcasts - teller - 07/25/2024 - 07:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Detroit Metro Times Publisher Ron Williams Donates to Walter P. Reuther Library

... has given voice to important perspectives of metropolitan Detroit’s life and culture that were not adequately represented within the pages of Detroit’s mainstream dailies. As Williams noted, "With progressive values ...

Blog entry - srafferty - 08/10/2023 - 08:50 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event Announcement: “This Is My Town: The Concert Poster Art of Detroit, 1970s-2000s”

On May 22nd, 2015, the Detroit Sound Conservancy , a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the musical sounds and stories of Detroit, will hold its second annual conference at the main branch of the Detroit Public Library. The Michigan Sound ...

Blog entry - Public Relation... - 05/26/2015 - 09:17 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Detroit Revolutionary Movements Records

‹ previous 390 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  LR000874 Use restriction:  Box 2, Folder 10 and Box 4, Folder 6 of the physical records are closed from access. Due to conservation measures ...

Abstracts - drice - 10/02/2020 - 11:20 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Detroit Adventure, Dance Theatre of Detroit flyer, 1968

A flyer for a 1968 Detroit Adventure-sponsored production of the Dance Theatre of Detroit. Date:  1968 Physdesc:  Poster (Detroit (Mich.), Detroit Adventure, University Archives, Wayne State University , Wayne ...

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