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(27975) Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPPSD), Chuck Holt, Undated

Chuck Holt is escorted through an unidentified location by a police officer. Date:  Undated Physdesc:  Photo negative Photographer:  Detroit News Collection (African Americans, Black Panther ...

Image - eclemens - 02/05/2013 - 16:07 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

In Memoriam: Marjorie S. Fisher

The Reuther Library notes with sadness the death of Marjorie S. Fisher on June 12. The wife of Max M. Fisher, Marjorie Fisher was the founder with her husband of the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation. She became the Founding Chair of ...

Blog entry - aergas - 06/24/2016 - 11:49 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(32776) World peace conference

World peace-themed conference possibly put on by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’s Detroit branch in the 1960s. Rosa Parks is pictured talking to a WILPF Detroit branch member in front of the WILPF booth. It is unclear in ...

Image - gstrassel - 02/06/2015 - 17:39 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

Helen and Mardy Polaner Papers

‹ previous 951 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  LP001257 Extent:  1.25 linear feet (2 MB) Date:  circa 1940-1969 Attorney Helen Moore Polaner was active in various ...

Abstracts - abarker - 05/06/2011 - 13:07 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Lorraine H. Decker Papers

‹ previous 365 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  UP001373 Extent:  1.75 linear feet (1 MB, 1 OS) Date:  1912-1983 Lorraine (Halsted) Decker graduated from the Grace ...

Abstracts - srafferty - 10/14/2019 - 11:52 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Ethel Winifred Bennett Chase Papers

‹ previous 1590 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  WSP000302 Extent:  1.5 linear feet (5 MB) Date:  1900-1948, bulk 1920s-1940s Miss Chase instructed Botany at Wayne ...

Abstracts - cwesterman - 06/21/2018 - 10:47 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

(28654) Catholic Church, Mother Teresa, 1979

Portrait of Mother Teresa, taken as she meditates during her 1979 visit to Detroit. She came to Michigan because her order, the Missionaries of Charity, opened a convent in Detroit. Later that year she was awarded the Noble Peace Prize. Date ...

Image - eclemens - 11/15/2018 - 17:55 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

Eugene Shafarman Papers

‹ previous 1082 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  LP001100 Extent:  .75 linear feet (2 MB) Date:  1935-1978, bulk 1936-1940 Dr. Eugene Shafarman was a Detroit physi ...

Abstracts - drice - 12/22/2010 - 15:47 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Don Ball Papers

‹ previous 178 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  LP001378 Extent:  1 folder Date:  1961 Don Ball was an award-winning reporter for the Detroit News. His papers cons ...

Abstracts - abarker - 12/21/2010 - 10:33 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

(25326) UAW Organizing, Battle of the Overpass, Dearborn, 1937

A Ford Service Department employee attempts to restrain a member of the UAW Local 174 Women’s Auxiliary during the “Battle of the Overpass.” Date:  1937-05-26 Physdesc:  Photograph Photographer:&n ...

Image - eclemens - 05/23/2011 - 08:55 - 0 comments - 3 attachments