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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

Frank S. Walker Papers

‹ previous 1783 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  WSP000111 Extent:  1 folder Date:  1896, 1905 This collection includes one deed of gift for 71 Detroit College of ...

Abstracts - cwesterman - 04/27/2012 - 13:52 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Amy Zanoni discusses — Poor Health: Retrenchment and Resistance in Chicago’s Public Hospital

Please join the Reuther Library for a presentation from our latest Fishman grant recipient Wednesday April 5, 2017, at noon. Amy Zanoni, a doctoral candidate from Rutgers University, will discuss her research into disinvestment, austerit ...

Blog entry - mcourtney - 04/20/2017 - 16:35 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Samuel Kellman Papers

‹ previous 675 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  UP000890 Extent:  4 linear feet (6 MB, 3 OS) Date:  1918-1954 Samuel Kellman collaborated with Thomas Harris and Ga ...

Abstracts - abarker - 05/03/2013 - 13:18 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Event: Sacramento Knoxx and Storytelling as History

The 5th event in our series “Latino Americans: 500 Years of History” will take place at 6pm this Friday, April 22, as part of the Wayne State University Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies’ Academia del Pueblo! Join us i ...

Blog entry - mcourtney - 04/25/2016 - 15:39 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Francis J. Dillon Papers

‹ previous 407 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  LP000437 Extent:  5 linear feet, (2 MB, 6 scrapbooks) Date:  1934-1943 This collection consists of correspondence a ...

Abstracts - drice - 05/05/2016 - 10:28 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Carolyn DesJardins Papers

‹ previous 256 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  UP002530 Extent:  1 linear foot (1 SB) Date:  1984-1988 In June 1982 Carolyn DesJardins (formerly Carolyn Larry) be ...

Abstracts - aorchard - 01/05/2015 - 15:27 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

(4600) Purple Gang, Arrests, Isadore "Izzy" Burnstein

Mug shots of Purple Gang leader Isadore "Izzy" Burnstein, with accompanying info on back of photograph: "Issy Burnstein 4/26/1927 Build-Slim; Complex-Fair; Hair-Black; Eyes-Hazel; Age-21; Weight-130lbs.; Height-5’4 1/2" April 26, 1927. ...

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George Lutzai Papers

‹ previous 754 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  LP000019 Extent:  7 linear feet (14 MB) Date:  1919-1965 An early member of the IWW and of UAW Local 314 in Detroit ...

Abstracts - drice - 12/03/2010 - 13:06 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

50 Years Later: the Kerner Commission and the Poor People's Campaign

... was appointed by President Johnson in the middle of Detroit’s 1967 rebellion. The commission was tasked with identifying ways to ... Papers reflect the commission’s investigation into Detroit’s Rebellion. Material related to the Poor People’s Campaign can ...

Blog entry - mcourtney - 03/21/2018 - 09:37 - 0 comments - 0 attachments