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Exhibit Opening: "12th Street, Detroit, 1967"

... are few topics in Michigan’s history as divisive as Detroit’s 1967 Civil Unrest. The five-day period of chaos and violence caused ...

Blog entry - mcourtney - 04/28/2017 - 11:00 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(2456) Buildings, Museums, Detroit Science Center, Detroit, 1990

A hypnotic view of the “Futuristic Elevator”, located within the Detroit Science Center at 5020 John R Street, Detroit, Michigan. Date:  1990 Physdesc:  Photograph Photographer:  Tony Spina ...

Image - eclemens - 07/20/2010 - 11:20 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

About Us

Reading Room — Hours of Operation: Monday – Friday 9:30am–noon, 1pm-3:30pm CLOSED Saturday, Sunday, & all University Holidays To schedule a research appointment, contact Kristen Chinery Campus Map and Park ...

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Subject focus: Jewish Detroit Experience

The Reuther Library celebrates the Jewish holiday of Passover with a look at some of the significant collections housed in the library that deal with the Jewish experience in Metropolitan Detroit. As the repository for the Jewish Community Archive ...

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

HistoryPin: Tour Detroit's Eastern Market

... Day, we invite you to visit our tour on HistoryPin: “Detroit’s Eastern Market” Since 1891, Detroit’s historic Eastern Market has been the go-to destination for fresh ...

Blog entry - eclemens - 11/27/2018 - 16:40 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Detroit's Corktown Neighborhood

In the Winter 2013 semester, the Reuther Library worked with students in the Graduate Certificate in Archival Administration program at the Wayne State School of Library and Information Science to produce a series of student-writte ...

Blog entry - Public Relation... - 06/13/2013 - 10:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

ACLU of Michigan and Metropolitan Detroit Branch Records

‹ previous 4 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  UR000231 Use restriction:  Series III is restricted. Requires written approval of donor and a signed restricted use form. Extent:  ...

Abstracts - drice - 06/24/2022 - 14:08 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Oral History

Walter P. Reuther Library oral histories provide unique, personal perspectives on national issues of social justice, civil rights, labor and unions, industrialization-deindustrialization, urbanization, immigration, and migration. These interviews, cond ...

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Guest Post: Ciera Casteel on the Wayne State University Oral History Course Oral Histories

... The 2014 collection also contains oral documentation of Detroit’s economic development and policing histories. In the midst of the ... Researchers looking for more information on the history of Detroit’s economic development should review to the Detroit Economic ...

Blog entry - aorchard - 07/06/2023 - 14:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

General Gordon Baker, Jr.: A Detroit Revolutionary to the Core

... of imprisonment for booing the National Anthem to protest Detroit’s bid to host the Olympics because of the city’s refusal to pass a ... University Press, 2001), 159-191; and David Goldberg, “Detroit’s Radical,” Jacobin: A Magazine of Culture and Polemic . I’d ...

Blog entry - ljones - 09/11/2014 - 16:17 - 0 comments - 2 attachments