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(25249) UAW Organizing, Battle of the Overpass, Dearborn, 1937

UAW organizers, members of the UAW Local 174 Women's Auxiliary and their supporters are forced back from the Ford Rouge Plant and into the Detroit Street Railway waiting area by Ford Service Department employees during the Battle of the Overpass. ...

Image - eclemens - 05/20/2011 - 14:52 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(38591) Women's Committee, United Community Services

Two volunteers for the United Community Services’ Women’s Committee prepare invitations for mailing. Date:  1950 - 1960 Physdesc:  Photograph Photographer:  Unknown (Charity organization ...

Image - eclemens - 04/11/2019 - 13:47 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(28539) Martin Luther King, Civil Rights, Cobo Hall, 1962

A meeting of leaders from the civil rights movement, politics and organized labor at Detroit's Cobo Hall. Left to Right: US Senator Phil Hart, Martin Luther King Jr. Walter Reuther UAW. Arthur Goldberg (Sec of Labor) Emil Mazey UAW and Mayor Louis ...

Image - eclemens - 07/27/2012 - 11:31 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(27974) Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPPSD), Brown (Al-Amin), Undated

Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown), at far left, walks with two other men in what appears to be a bus station. Date:  Undated Physdesc:  Photo negative Photographer:  Detroit News Staff (African ...

Image - eclemens - 02/05/2013 - 15:55 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(27958) Cleage (Agyeman), Shrine of the Black Madonna, 1973

The Rev. Albert Cleage (later Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman), political organizer and founder of the Shrine of the Black Madonna, speaks before a crowd at an unidentified event. Date:  1973-1-17 Physdesc:  Photograph ...

Image - eclemens - 02/05/2013 - 05:52 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(25231) UAW Organizing, Women's Auxiliary, Battle of the Overpass, 1937

Members of the UAW Local 174 Women's Auxiliary stand in the back of a parked streetcar and talk to the men standing outside of the Ford Rouge Plant during the Battle of the Overpass. Date:  1937-05-26 Physdesc:  Phot ...

Image - eclemens - 05/21/2016 - 18:36 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

Podcast: “Long Memory is the Most Radical Idea in America” Field Report from Reuther Collections Gatherer Louis Jones

... an organization working to support and advocate for Detroit’s LGBT community. Jones is the field archivist for the Walter P. ...

Podcasts - mcourtney - 03/20/2019 - 13:57 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Michael Kerwin Papers Now Open

Michael W. Kerwin passed away on July 19, 2021 at the age of 97. A portion of his archival papers are now available for research. Kerwin was well-known and respected for his activism and long-term involvement in labor, democratic politic ...

Blog entry - srafferty - 10/11/2021 - 09:09 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(27191) Cavanagh, Breakthough Pickets, Press Conference, 1960s

Jerome Cavanagh speaks during a press conference concerning pickets by Breakthrough, a right-wing organization headed by Donald Lobsinger. Date:  1960s Physdesc:  Photograph Photographer:  Unknown ...

Image - eclemens - 04/26/2018 - 13:24 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(9603) 2nd Annual NALC Convention

Delegates at the 2nd Annual National Convention in Detroit, Michigan, August 5-7, 1891. Inscription on photograph reads "Photograph presented to President William C. Doherty at the Ohio State Association Convention in Toledo, Ohio, September 7, 1953" ...

Image - kdowgiewicz - 03/09/2011 - 14:20 - 0 comments - 3 attachments