Housing development--Michigan--Detroit

John Musial Papers

drice — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:16:56 -0400

John J. Musial was a student at University of Michigan who later worked for the city of Detroit. He served on the Commission on Community Relations as the Research Director in 1963. Musial wrote articles related to programs and projects in the city of Detroit.

The John Musial Papers consist of reports and other published materials created by or regarding the development of the city of Detroit. As Research Director of the Commission on Community Relations, he authored some of the reports. The reports are related to housing, population, income, and community projects in Detroit during the administration of Jerome Cavanagh until the beginning of the Coleman Young administration.

Detroit's Black Bottom and Paradise Valley Neighborhoods

Public Relations Team — Fri, 04 May 2012 09:15:49 -0400

In the Winter 2012 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-written, guest blog posts.

Cathy MacDonald is a student in the Archival Administration Program at Wayne State University. She is currently interning at the Arab American National Museum’s Library and Resource Center.

Detroit’s Black Bottom and Paradise Valley neighborhoods provided both housing and entertainment for the city’s African American community from the 1920s through the 1940s. read more »

Event: “Assembly Line Housing: Walter P. Reuther, George Romney and Operation Breakthrough”

Public Relations Team — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 10:15:39 -0400

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. read more »

The 1943 Detroit Race Riot

jruss — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:07:36 -0400

On June 20, 1943, a fight broke out between African American and white Detroiters spending their Sunday on Belle Isle, the city’s large park in the middle of the Detroit River. Fighting spread to the mainland, and rumors crisscrossed the city, stoking racial tensions that had been running high and threatening to boil over into violence for months. Rioting spread, with little attempt from the police to stop it (in fact, much evidence points to many white police facilitating and even participating in violence against African Americans), and by the time President Franklin Roosevelt sent in federal troops on the evening of June 21, hundreds had been injured, and 34 people had died: 25 African American (17 of whom were shot by police), and 9 white. Of the arrests made later, 85% were African American. read more »

(26874) West Central Organization (WCO), Petitions, 1966

eclemens — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:20:07 -0500

Members of the West Central Organization (WCO) arrive at Mayor Jerome Cavanagh’s home to deliver a petition calling for changes in the urban renewal and low-cost housing programs.

(28769) UAW wartime housing advertisement

jruss — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:41:03 -0400

This advertisement appeared in an issue of the UAW Education Department's publication Ammunition in the 1940s. This particular image appears in the Reuther Library vertical file on Race Riots 1940s.

(28771) Detroit Housing Has not Kept Up with Population

jruss — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:59:26 -0400

This chart appears on page 15 of a pamphlet entitled Why Race Riots? Lessons from Detroit, produced by the Public Affairs Committee and written by Earl Brown in 1944. The pamphlet examines the reasons behind Detroit's 1943 race riot. The pamphlet appears in the Reuther Library vertical file Race Riots 1940s folder.

(30457) Urban Renewal, Wayne State University, University City, 1961

eclemens — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:14:26 -0400

A view of the neighborhood at the corner of W. Warren Avenue and Lincoln. The area was targeted for demolition to make way for Wayne State's "University City," an area of mixed residential and educational development west of the main campus.

Caption Reads: “Northwest corner of Lincoln & W. Warren. It has everything!”

(30670) Urban Renewal, Detroit Medical Center, 1960s