https://reuther.wayne.edu/taxonomy/term/2050 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/5182 <p>This collection documents the career and personal life of author Nettie Jones.</p> https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/5182#comments African American authors African American women Urban Affairs Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:51:51 -0400 kschmeling 5182 at https://reuther.wayne.edu https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/2802 <p>The Bonnie Lee Moss Rattner Papers contain clippings, correspondence, articles, address lists, scripts and miscellaneous material pertaining primarily to Rattner's "To Gleam It Around, To Show My Shine," a two-act play based on the novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," by Zora Neale Hurston. Scripts from other plays by Rattner are included. Personal materials include resumes, awards, articles and writings. Among the subjects covered in the collection are African-American literature, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, grant proposals, production rights, Wayne State University, playwriting and productions for the stage.</p> https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/2802#comments African American authors African American women Theater Urban Affairs Mon, 01 Feb 2021 09:16:52 -0500 aergas 2802 at https://reuther.wayne.edu https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/14464 <p>Candid portrait of Aretha Franklin.</p> https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/14464#comments African American musicians African American women African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--History--20th century Musicians Tony Spina - Portraits Urban Affairs Wed, 03 Jul 2019 12:21:21 -0400 eclemens 14464 at https://reuther.wayne.edu https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/14459 <p>Candid portrait of Aretha Franklin singing in studio. </p> https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/14459#comments African American women Tony Spina - Portraits Urban Affairs Wed, 03 Jul 2019 11:42:03 -0400 eclemens 14459 at https://reuther.wayne.edu https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/14466 <p>Candid portrait of Aretha Franklin singing in studio. </p> https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/14466#comments African American musicians African American women African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--History--20th century Musicians Tony Spina - Portraits Urban Affairs Wed, 03 Jul 2019 12:21:21 -0400 eclemens 14466 at https://reuther.wayne.edu https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/14460 <p>Aretha Franklim walks down an unidentified residential street in Detroit.</p> https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/14460#comments African American musicians African American women African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--History--20th century Musicians Tony Spina - Portraits Urban Affairs Wed, 03 Jul 2019 12:21:20 -0400 eclemens 14460 at https://reuther.wayne.edu https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/14461 <p>Aretha Franklin poses in front of New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit.</p> https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/14461#comments African American musicians African American women African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--History--20th century Musicians Tony Spina - Portraits Urban Affairs Wed, 03 Jul 2019 12:21:20 -0400 eclemens 14461 at https://reuther.wayne.edu https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/14462 <p>Aretha Franklin poses in front of New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit.</p> https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/14462#comments African American musicians African American women African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--History--20th century Musicians Tony Spina - Portraits Urban Affairs Wed, 03 Jul 2019 12:21:21 -0400 eclemens 14462 at https://reuther.wayne.edu https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/14463 <p>Candid portrait of Aretha Franklin.</p> https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/14463#comments African American musicians African American women African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--History--20th century Musicians Tony Spina - Portraits Urban Affairs Wed, 03 Jul 2019 12:21:21 -0400 eclemens 14463 at https://reuther.wayne.edu https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/14465 <p>Candid portrait of Aretha Franklin standing in front of a house in Detroit.</p> https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/14465#comments African American musicians African American women African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--History--20th century Musicians Tony Spina - Portraits Urban Affairs Wed, 03 Jul 2019 12:21:21 -0400 eclemens 14465 at https://reuther.wayne.edu https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/14467 <p>Candid view of Aretha Franklin singing in studio.</p> https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/14467#comments African American musicians African American women African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--History--20th century Musicians Tony Spina - Portraits Urban Affairs Wed, 03 Jul 2019 12:21:21 -0400 eclemens 14467 at https://reuther.wayne.edu https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/14889 <p>“Lucia Gonzalez de Parsons.” 23x36 inches. Linocut Print [in Spanish].<br /> Artist: Carlos Cortez. </p> <p>Translation: "Don't go on strike. Stay on the Job and take possession of the Work machines. If someone has to go hungry, let them be the Patrons!"</p> https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/14889#comments African American women Industrial Workers of the World IWW Graphics Materials and Artifacts Radicalism Thu, 30 Apr 2020 13:50:37 -0400 eclemens 14889 at https://reuther.wayne.edu https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/15218 <p>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 American history at Slippery Rock University and author of <em>A Brick and a Bible: Black Women's Radical Activism in the Midwest during the Great Depression</em>. <span class='read-more'><a href="https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/15218" target="_blank"><strong>&nbsp;read&nbsp;more&nbsp;&raquo;</strong></a></span></p> African American labor leaders African American women African Americans--History Communism Community activists Labor unions--organizing Socialism Tue, 17 Jan 2023 12:46:10 -0500 teller 15218 at https://reuther.wayne.edu https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/14934 <p>Allie Penn explains how her work on a grant-funded digitization project introduced her to the Housewives League of Detroit and led to a digital humanities project mapping Detroit Black-owned businesses from the 1930s through 1950s. <span class='read-more'><a href="https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/14934" target="_blank"><strong>&nbsp;read&nbsp;more&nbsp;&raquo;</strong></a></span></p> African American women African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--History--20th century African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--Social conditions--20th century Boycotts Civil rights Detroit (Mich.)--Race relations--20th century Detroit--economic conditions Detroit--race relations Economic development Wed, 20 May 2020 15:00:52 -0400 teller 14934 at https://reuther.wayne.edu