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(DN_77646) Ford Hunger March, Violence, 1932

Demonstrators on Miller Road outside of the Rouge Plant flee as tear gas and bullets are released on them by Dearborn Police and Ford Servicemen during the 1932 Ford Hunger March. Date:  1932-03-07 Photographer:  D ...

Image - eclemens - 03/18/2011 - 15:33 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(33655) Air Raid Drills, Schools, Northville, 1942

Children and staff at a school in Northville complete schoolwork in an air raid shelter. Date:  1942-04-27 Physdesc:  Photo negative Photographer:  Detroit News Staff (Detroit (Mich.), Detro ...

Image - eclemens - 11/10/2015 - 14:40 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(35800) Tony Spina Photographs; Civil Disturbance; 1967

National Guardsmen patrol an unidentified street in Detroit during the Civil Unrest. Detroit, Michigan. July 1967. Date:  1967-07 Physdesc:  Photo negative (Detroit (Mich.) -- Riot, 1967, Detroit's 1967 Civil ...

Image - eclemens - 05/18/2022 - 11:41 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(28637) Riots, Housing, Sojourner Truth, State Troops, 1942

Michigan State Troops guard one of the many checkpoints set up on the streets that lead into 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 Afri ...

Image - eclemens - 06/15/2012 - 04:31 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(26907) Cavanagh, Williams, McNamara, 1960s.

Mayor Jerome Cavanagh with Patrick McNamara and G. Mennen Williams. Date:  1960s Physdesc:  Photograph Photographer:  Unknown (Cavanagh, Jerome P., Detroit (Mich.), Detroit--politics and gov ...

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

(27809) Charlie Cogen and Sandra Feldman

Charlie Cogen and Sandra Feldman at the 1980 AFT Convention in Detroit, MI. Date:  1980 Physdesc:  Photograph Photographer:  Paul S. Conklin (American Federation of Teachers, American Federa ...

Image - jhelpap - 04/23/2013 - 17:28 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(27963) Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPPSD), Police, Confrontation, 1970

An exterior view of 3376 16th Street, the National Committee to Combat Fascism in America's Community Center, after the confrontation between Detroit Police and members of Detroit's Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPPSD). Note: Police enterin ...

Image - eclemens - 02/05/2013 - 10:08 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

Central High School 1900 Yearbook

Extent:  21 MB Date:  1900 Accession Number:  WSP000367 "June 1900," the 1900 yearbook of the Detroit Central High School. Part of the Harriette and Helen Bishop Papers. Attachment ...

Documents - cwesterman - 09/01/2016 - 11:00 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

(32209) First World War, Civilian Support, Border Cities Welfare League, 1917-1918

Members of the Border Cities Welfare League pass out cartons of cigarettes to servicemen in rail cars. The cars are filled with African American recruits, one of whom is holding an American and a British Flag. Date:  1917-1918 ...

Image - eclemens - 07/29/2014 - 12:50 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(11519) Organizing, Curtiss Wright Corporation, Buffalo, New York, 1941

UAW members, in town to attend the 1941 Convention, take time to help organize the Curtiss Wright Corporation, Airplane Division, Buffalo, New York. Represented are members of General Motors Local 235 (Hamtramck, MI), Budd Local 306 (Detroit), and an un ...

Image - eclemens - 01/20/2011 - 13:23 - 0 comments - 3 attachments