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Guest Post: Daniel Kelly on Raven Award Experience, 2022

Daniel Kelly received the 2022 Ronald Raven Annual Award, a scholarship providing a tuition stipend and a semester-long internship in the Wayne State University Archives. At the end of his internship, Daniel wrote this summary of his experience. ...

Blog entry - thenning - 02/01/2023 - 10:35 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Now on view: All Labor Has Dignity: The 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike, Photographs by Richard L. Copley

In 1968, Memphis sanitation workers, AFSCME Local 1733, went on strike for increased wages and union recognition, but most importantly, to be treated with respect and dignity. The strike became an important chapter in the civil rights movemen ...

Blog entry - scaloia - 05/09/2018 - 08:44 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Wayne University 1934 Yearbook

Extent:  33 MB Date:  1934 Accession Number:  WSR002149 "The Griffin," the 1934 yearbook of the College of the City of Detroit. This book was published as a single volume; in order to reduce file ...

Documents - cwesterman - 06/05/2012 - 16:10 - 0 comments - 2 attachments

The Birth, Life, and Legacy of the Johnson-Forest Tendency in the Nettie Kravitz Papers

The Nettie Kravitz Papers join several others at the Reuther Library documenting the activities of the Johnson-Forest Tendency and its members. Before Kravitz was a professor of Women’s Studies and Literature at Oakland Community Colleg ...

Blog entry - Public Relation... - 06/13/2022 - 16:12 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Constitutions and By-laws, Pamphlets

‹ previous 236 of 1285 next › Unprocessed Creator:  Detroit and Wayne County Federation of Labor Date:  1919, 1924, 1945, 1950s Size:  .5 manuscript box (Americ ...

Publications - kchinery - 06/10/2013 - 11:58 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

National Founders Association Records

‹ previous 879 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  LR001292 Extent:  .5 linear feet (1 MB) Date:  1905-1911, bulk 1905-1909 The National Founders Association was an e ...

Abstracts - drice - 06/08/2016 - 11:00 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

[Podcast] "Girls, We Cannot Lose!": Midwestern Black Women Activists During the Great Depression

Dr. Melissa Ford explores the influence of working-class Black women in Detroit, St. Louis, and Cleveland on the development of Black radicalism in the American Midwest during the Great Depression. Ford is an associate professor of African Am ...

Podcasts - teller - 02/27/2023 - 09:48 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(30941) Dinner, ICWES I, 1964

Attendees sit at a first International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists event in New York City, New York, June 1964. A sign in the background advertises the 1966 SWE national convention in Detroit, Michigan. Date:  1964-06 ...

Image - teller - 04/29/2014 - 14:32 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 58 Records

‹ previous 630 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  LR002685 Extent:  17 linear feet, (16 SB, 3 OS) Date:  1891-2015 The International Brotherhood of Electrical Worker ...

Abstracts - kschmeling - 07/10/2019 - 10:53 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Walter Reuther, Martin Luther King, Jr., and May Reuther

UAW International President Walter Reuther, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and May Reuther at the UAW's 25th anniversary celebration at Detroit's Cobo Hall. 1961. Date:  1961-May-17 Physdesc:  Photograph (King, ...

Image - gstrassel - 05/08/2020 - 12:13 - 0 comments - 3 attachments