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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

(1740) Sports, Detroit Grand Prix, Races, Detroit, Michigan, 1988

Racer Ayrton Senna poses in his car after he won the 1988 Detroit Grand Prix, Detroit, Michigan. The Renaissance Center and three American flags are seen in the background. Date:  June 19, 1988 Physdesc:  Photograph ...

Image - eclemens - 06/06/2022 - 09:13 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(34033) Mary Ellen Riordan, Detroit Federation of Teachers, Detroit, Michigan, 1960s

Detroit, Michigan. Mary Ellen Riordan, president of AFT local 231 Detroit Federation of Teachers, smiles and holds up two fingers, with a crowd of people standing behind her. Date:  circa 1965-1966 Physdesc:  Photog ...

Image - scaloia - 02/10/2016 - 17:54 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT), collective barganing, Detroit, Michigan

The reaction of Detroit Federation of Teachers’ (DFT) members when they found out they won the collective bargaining election over the Detroit Education Association. Date:  May 11, 1964 Physdesc:  Photograph ...

Image - dgolodner - 02/11/2016 - 11:15 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(2457) Buildings, Detroit Opera House, Campus Martius, Sam's Cut-Rate, Detroit, 1966

The Old Opera House stands partially demolished as pedestrians pass by, unmoved, Detroit, Michigan. A version of the Opera House stood at Campus Martius from 1869 to 1963. The original structure, built in 1869 by Mortimer L. Smith, was destroyed by fi ...

Image - eclemens - 07/20/2010 - 11:33 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

[Podcast] Environmental Activism in Deindustrialized Detroit

... the labor movement, alarmed by the pollution remaining in Detroit’s deindustrialized era that mostly heavily impacted Black Americans ...

Podcasts - teller - 05/11/2022 - 14:42 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Wayne State University College of Education, Dean’s Office: Detroit Public Schools Monitoring Commission on Desegregation Records

‹ previous 1550 of 1805 next › Accession Number:  WSR001371 Extent:  3 linear feet (3 SB) Date:  1975-1985 The Detroit Public Schools Monitoring Commission on Deseg ...

Abstracts - drice - 10/22/2013 - 16:36 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

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

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Michigan Black History Bibliography Michigan Black History Bibliography (MBHB) Sometime in 1974, Roberta McBride, an archivist at Wayne State University’s Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs (later called the Walter P. ...

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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