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(79811) Ethnic Communities, Arab, Dearborn, 1977

Khayoon Hannawa and Bashar Samouna pose for Detroit News Photographers in front of local Arab American owned businesses. Date:  1977 Physdesc:  Photograph Photographer:  Detroit News Staff ( ...

Image - eclemens - 06/06/2023 - 07:41 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(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 ...

Image - eclemens - 06/15/2012 - 04:13 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(26899) Cavanagh, King, 1960s

Mayor Jerome Cavanagh speaks with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and another man during an unidentified event. Date:  1960s Physdesc:  Photograph Photographer:  Unknown (Cavanagh, Jerome P., De ...

Image - eclemens - 02/08/2018 - 12:07 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(28314) Ethnic Communities, Russian, Dancers, 1939

Russian dancers pose, in costume, for a Detroit News photographer. Noted on verso is the phrase "Rho Alpha Chi." Standing: Jean Kondratsky, Nick Kurtz, Vera Tarashoff, Victor Tarashoff, George Werem Seated: Harry Kuzmich, Luba Pukolenko, Zena Om ...

Image - eclemens - 06/05/2023 - 10:36 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

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

(DN_17101) UAW Public Review Board, Reuther, Adler, McRae, Oxnam, 1957

Walter Reuther meets with the newly established UAW Public Review Board. Shown: Bishop Oxnam, Msgr. Higgens, Judge McRae, Rabbi Adler, and Dr. White and Walter Reuther. Date:  1957-03-24 Physdesc:  Photograph ...

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Year in Review: Collection Archivists

2016 was an active year at the Walter P. Reuther Library, especially for its collection archivists. Unique among archival repositories, the Reuther Library has six archivist positions directly supported by labor and cultural institutions, making us thei ...

Blog entry - gstrassel - 02/09/2017 - 13:09 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(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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(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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(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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