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(33646) Air Raid Drills, Schools, 1942

Students at Poe Elementary School sit in the hallway and listen to stories read by their teachers during an air raid drill. Date:  1942-03-11 Physdesc:  Photo negative Photographer:  Detroit News S ...

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(27802) Portraits, Athletics, Vernon Payne, Circa 1981

Portrait of Vernon Payne, Athletic Director for Wayne State University and coach of the Tartars football team, Detroit, Michigan, circa 1981. Date:  circa 1980s Physdesc:  Photograph Photographer:  ...

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Metro Times cover, Motor City Music Awards, April 12, 1992.

Date:  1992-04-12 (Detroit (Mich.), Detroit (Mich.)—Cultural affairs, Public Relations and Social Media, Publications, Urban Affairs) ...

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(12276) Ford Hunger March, Funeral Procession, 1932

The first of four hearses that carry Joe York, George Bussell, Coleman Leny and Joe Blasio, four of the men killed during the Ford Hunger March, leads the vast funeral procession down Woodward Avenue. Date:  1932-03-12 Phy ...

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(26886) Cavanagh, Johnson, Labor Day, 1964

Mayor Jerome Cavanagh presents a miniature copy of the “Spirit of Deroit” to President Lyndon Johnson during the Labor Day rally. Also shown are the sculptor, Marshall Fredericks, and Al Barbour. Date:  1964-09-07 Phy ...

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(28635) Riots, Housing, Sojourner Truth, State Police, 1942

Michigan State Police march in formation throughout the Sojourner Truth Housing Project on "moving day." Over 1,400 State and Detroit police and 1,000 Michigan State Troops were brought in to protect the 200 African American families set to move into th ...

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Central High School 1970 Yearbook

Extent:  1 computer file Date:  1970 Accession Number:  WSR001832 "Centralite '70," the 1970 yearbook of Central High School of Detroit, Michigan. Attachment (click to download) ...

Documents - cwesterman - 04/07/2011 - 10:59 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

(33643) Recruitment, Dutch, Stratford, Ontario, 1941

Dutchmen and volunteers sympathetic to the plight of the Netherlands train at a bootcamp set up in Stratford, Ontario. The men were members of the "Prinses Irene Brigade," a mixed group of enlisted Dutch servicemen who escaped abroad prior to Germa ...

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(26038) Riots, Rebellions, Casualties, West Side, 1967

Wild's Cleaners, at the corner of Grand River and Edmonton, the location of a shooting during the civil unrest of 1967. Date:  1967-08-07 Physdesc:  Photograph Photographer:  Batten - Detroit New ...

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James and Grace Lee Boggs Papers

‹ previous 216 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  UP001342 Extent:  23 linear feet (18 SB, 10 MB) Date:  1930s-1993 James and Grace Lee Boggs played a leading role i ...

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