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UAW CAP Department Records Part II Now Open

... records join a CAP Department collection that documents Detroit’s 1940s-1950s elections and political races from across the country. ...

Blog entry - gstrassel - 10/26/2021 - 09:00 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(11327) 1956 AFSCME Convention

International Vice Presidents share a toast at the 1956 AFSCME Convention in Detroit. From left: Alvin Ruthenberg, Margaret De Santis, Mary Hostettler, William Louscher, and Harold Kelly. Date:  1956 Physdesc:  Photo ...

Image - jruss - 03/25/2014 - 10:58 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

Event: "Larry Itliong: The Farm Labor Organizer Who Changed the World."

Dawn Mabalon, Associate Professor at San Francisco State University, will share her research on the life and work of Larry Itliong, a Filipino leader of California’s farm labor movement. It focuses on relationships between Filipino and Mexi ...

Blog entry - mcourtney - 12/06/2017 - 14:54 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(6676) Libraries, Interiors, Old Main, circa 1935

Students study in the main library at Wayne University's Old Main, Detroit, Michigan. Date:  Circa 1935 Physdesc:  Photograph Photographer:  Wayne State University Staff (Architecture, Educa ...

Image - eclemens - 03/17/2011 - 15:33 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(11368) UAW, Women's Auxiliary, GM Strike, 1945

Members of the UAW Women’s Auxiliary gather Christmas toys to distribute to the children of General Motors workers on strike, Detroit, Michigan. Date:  December 1945 Physdesc:  Photograph Photographer: ...

Image - eclemens - 08/25/2009 - 10:21 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(11666) Mayors Meeting

Mayors of major cities met in New York in May 1971 to discuss American urban needs. From left: Wesley Uhlman, Seattle; Kenneth Gibson, Newark; Kevin White, Boston; Sam Massell, Atlanta; Peter Flaherty, Pittsburgh; Henry Maier, Milwaukee; John Lindsay, N ...

Image - jruss - 03/25/2014 - 13:27 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

UAW Local 417 Records

‹ previous 1260 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  LR000715 Extent:  28 linear feet (28 SB) Date:  1954-1983 Subjects include: auto parts plants in Detroit's norther ...

Abstracts - drice - 01/20/2011 - 12:34 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Event: “Assembly Line Housing: Walter P. Reuther, George Romney and Operation Breakthrough”

Kristin M. Szylvian, Associate Professor of History and LIS at St. John's University in New York, will discuss conflicts between federal housing agencies and organized labor concerning prefabricated housing. In the late 1960s, the federal government exp ...

Blog entry - Public Relation... - 11/09/2017 - 09:34 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Oscar Paskal Collection

‹ previous 930 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  LP000066 Extent:  2.5 linear feet (3MB, 1 SB) Date:  1932-1980 Mr. Paskal served on the editorial board of the UAW ...

Abstracts - drice - 05/14/2014 - 15:41 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Bernard Firestone Papers

‹ previous 491 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  LP001444 Extent:  17 linear feet, (17 SB) Date:  circa 1950-1989 Bernard J. (Bernie) Firestone (1935-1989) served a ...

Abstracts - aergas - 08/06/2020 - 11:17 - 0 comments - 2 attachments