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How Mary Ellen Riordan Lead the Detroit Federation of Teachers' Fight for Collective Bargaining

The Detroit Federation of Teachers has seen a number of challenges and triumphs since its founding in 1931 – a significant number of which occurred during the 21-year tenure of president Mary Ellen Riordan. Riordan guided the union through ...

Blog entry - scaloia - 07/03/2017 - 14:24 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

LGBT Detroit Records

... Their mission was to increase awareness and to support Detroit’s dynamic LGBT culture through education and advocacy. They organized ...

Abstracts - kschmeling - 11/14/2017 - 13:59 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Subject Focus: Poverty and Charity in Turn-of-the-Century Detroit

In the late 19th century Detroit’s industrial base and burgeoning prosperity quickly attracted ... in a set of ledgers, which document the difficult lives of Detroit’s poverty-stricken and the social network created to help them in the ... a broad view of the organizations dedicated to serving Detroit’s needy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In addition to ...

Blog entry - teller - 10/01/2013 - 11:52 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(27833) Prohibition, Smuggling, Detroit River, Detroit, 1929

A rum-runner lies in wait on a dock in Sandwich, Ontario for the signal that it is clear to bring alcohol across the Detroit River to a landing plot on 17th Street. Diagram courtesy of a Detroit News Photographer. Date:  1929 ...

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(27826) Prohibition, Smuggling, Detroit River, Detroit, 1920s

A Detroit News photographer diagrams the process of landing alcohol from Canada in Detroit at the foot of Riopelle Street during Prohibition. Date:  1929-04-01 Physdesc:  Photo negative Photographer:&nbs ...

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Subject Focus: Armistice Day and Veterans Day

Although the First World War did not officially end until the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919, combat between the Allied nations and Germany ended on November 11, 1918, when an armistice was called for the eleventh hour o ...

Blog entry - teller - 03/06/2026 - 10:59 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

AFT Local 231: Detroit Federation of Teachers Records

‹ previous 63 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  LR000087 Extent:  34 linear feet, (34 SB) Date:  Circa 1930-1979 This collection has union newspapers, correspondenc ...

Abstracts - dgolodner - 06/30/2016 - 11:30 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

(27829) Prohibition, Smuggling, Detroit River, Detroit, 1929

A police officer inspects a cable that funneled alcohol underneath the Detroit River from Canada. Date:  1929-9-14 Physdesc:  Photo negative Photographer:  Detroit News Staff (Detroit River ...

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The Thanksgiving Parade in Detroit

This Thanksgiving marked the 85th anniversary of a Detroit favorite now known as America’s Thanksgiving Parade. The parade was started in 1924 by Charles Wendel, the display manager of the J.L. Hudson Company department store on Woodward Avenue. Along ...

Blog entry - teller - 03/15/2017 - 15:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(27830) Prohibition, Smuggling, Detroit River, Detroit, 1929

A man models a makeshift scuba suit as he sits on a boat in a boathouse. The boathouse housed a cable that funneled alcohol underneath the Detroit River from Canada. Date:  1929-09-14 Physdesc:  Photo negative ...

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