Detroit (Mich.) -- Riot, 1967

Mel Ravitz Papers

cwesterman — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 15:22:23 -0500

Professor and Detroit community advocate Mel Ravitz held various posts in Detroit politics, including positions such as the Detroit City Plan Commission Director of Community Organization, on the Detroit City Council and as staff director of the Detroit-Wayne County Community Mental Health Services Board. As a professor at Wayne State University, Mr. Ravitz assisted in the formation of the University’s Department of Urban Planning.

Mr. Ravitz’s papers reflect his interests in community organizing and neighborhood revitalization, and serve to document the history of Detroit politics and the social and economic changes that the city faced during the later half of the twentieth century. In addition there are files relating to his activities to 2005.

The collection is in three parts.

J. Edward Bailey III Papers

abarker — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:17:38 -0400

The work of Detroit African-American photojournalist, J. Edward Bailey III, appeared in over thirty major publications and was exhibited widely in projects such as "The City Within," about Detroit's 1967 riot, and representation in a portfolio of 200 prominent African Americans commissioned for the nation's Bicentennial. The collection consists primarily of clippings and memorabilia chronicling his career.

J. Edward Bailey III Photographs

eclemens — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 15:05:28 -0400

Photography by the renowned Black photojournalist, J. Edward Bailey III. The collection contains standard and oversized (OS) black and white photo prints, OS proof sheets, b/w photo negatives, and color transparencies. Examples of both his personal and commercial work are present, including select imagery used in Bailey's exhibits "The City Within" (Detroit Institute of Arts, 1969), and "Patient Care" (Detroit Bank and Trust Co., 1972). Subjects represented include civil rights, industry, organized labor, poverty, and Detroit's 1967 Rebellion.

Jerome P. Cavanagh Papers

drice — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:06:22 -0400

The papers of Mr. Cavanagh, mayor of Detroit from 1962 to 1970. They include correspondence, reports, studies, speeches, minutes, and other materials of the mayor's office and commissions and departments of the city. Efforts, both local and national, in improving economic and racial conditions in Detroit are recorded in the collection. Subjects of interest include 1967 Detroit riot; Detroit Police Dept.; urban redevelopment programs; Detroit and Michigan politics; New Detroit, Inc.; poverty programs; housing; civil disorders and police problems; and all aspects of the urban complex. Smaller groups within the collection are the files of James L. Trainor, Fred Romanoff, Richard Strichartz, Jack Casey, and Sandra McClure, all members of the mayor's staff. Correspondents are government officials on every level: U .S. presidents, vice presidents, senators, congressmen, state officials, mayors of other cities, and other prominent public figures.

Jerome P. Cavanagh Photographs and Other Material

drice — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 11:06:29 -0400

The Jerome P. Cavanagh Photographs and Other Material consists of numerous photographs, the majority of which were taken during his time in office. These photographs cover events such as the 1968 Olympic Bid, visits from Lyndon B. Johnson, aftermath of the 1967 unrest, and Mayor Cavanagh with various prominent Detroit business people, union members, and politicians. Also included in the collection is memorabilia from his 1966 Senate campaign, 1968 Olympic information, and other various memorabilia during his time in office.

Detroit Commission on Community Relations (DCCR) / Human Rights Department Records

drice — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:47:48 -0400

The Commission on Community Relations evolved from the City of Detroit Mayor's Interracial Committee in 1953 and was renamed in 1974 as the Human Rights Department. All three iterations served a common purpose: to make recommendations to improve governmental services affecting racial relations, and to promote understanding between the races. Minutes, correspondence, and case studies document the Commission's efforts to achieve these goals.

Topics covered include affirmative action, the Coordinating Council on Human Relations, discrimination in housing, health care, the 1943 & 1967 race riots, southern migration into Detroit, police-community relations, welfare, and school redistricting.

This Finding Aid was revised in July 2019, citations attributed before this date may no longer match current folder locations/numbers. If you need help locating a folder from an old citation, please ask an archivist for assistance.

Economic Development Corporation of Greater Detroit: Michael Weston Records

drice — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:48:01 -0500

A graduate of Brown University and the University of Michigan Law School, Michael Weston practiced law at Hill, Lewis, Andrews, Adams, Goodrich and Power (now known as Clark Hill), before serving as Secretary (1969), Treasurer (1970) and President (1972) of the Economic Development Corporation (EDC). Developed out of the 1967 riots, the EDC of Greater Detroit was a multi-corporate consortium created as the Detroit business establishment’s vehicle to increase opportunities for African-Americans and Hispanics to grow their own businesses. Weston left the EDC in 1973 to accept a position as a university attorney at Northwestern University. He retired from Northwestern in 2001 as vice president and general counsel. The EDC merged with the Inner City Business Improvement Forum circa 1974.

The records of Michael C. Weston reflect the administrative concerns of the EDC during his tenure there and particularly document his work with the organization.

Focus: HOPE Records

drice — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:26:00 -0500

Focus: HOPE emerged in March of 1968 from the ashes of the 1967 Detroit riot. The largely volunteer civil and human rights organization has created an astonishing variety of innovative programs aimed at overcoming racism, poverty and injustice by fostering integration and bringing the urban unemployed into the economic mainstream, programs which have become a model for urban revitalization worldwide. The Focus: HOPE Collection contains a wide variety of sources, including correspondence, statistical reports, financial records, survey data, grant proposals, legislative history and publicity, documenting the food distribution, human relations and job training programs Focus: HOPE pioneered to eliminate the racism, poverty and unemployment which fueled the 1967 Detroit riot. Additionally, the collection examines the motivation and careers of the organization's co-founders, Father William Cunningham and Eleanor Josaitis.

Horace W. Gilmore Papers

drice — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:56:35 -0500

Correspondence, pamphlets, booklets, newsletters, clippings, reports, and notes collected by Mr. Gilmore, who has been active politically in Detroit and Michigan. In 1952 he was special assistant U.S. attorney for the Office of Price Stabilization under Philip A. Hart; from 1955-56 he served as deputy attorney general of Michigan; from 1956 to the present he has been a Wayne County Circuit Court judge; from 1965-68 he helped to organize the Detroit Citizens Committee for Equal Opportunity and led its Police-Community Subcommittee; since 1965, he has chaired the Michigan Committee for Revision of the Criminal Code; he has been a member of the Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice since 1967, leading the commission's Task Force on Administration of Justice. In 1969 he was elected a member of the Judicial Tenure Commission; from 1970-71 he headed the Round Table of Jews and Christians Institute of Police-Community Relations; and from 1971-72 he was president of NARCO (Narcotics Addiction Rehabilitation Coordinating Organization). Subjects include police training, criminal code revision, community relations, the 1967 Detroit riot and civil rights, and Detroit community projects. Major correspondents are Richard Emrich, Mildred Jeffrey, and G. Mennen Williams.

William Hanna Photographs

drice — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 16:11:03 -0500

William Hanna worked for the city of Detroit. During the course of the
work day and on his free time, Hanna would capture events in the city
that he personally found interesting or of importance. The photographs
in his collection consist of black and white snapshots of the building
of the Fort St. County Building and the changing river front and color
snapshots of buildings, streets, and people during the civil unrest in
Detroit in 1967.

Stanley J. Winkelman Papers

abarker — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:29:50 -0400

Stanley Winkelman served as president and Chief Executive Officer of the historic Detroit retailer, Winkelman Stores, Inc. An active leader in the Detroit community, Mr. Winkelman served in a multitude of Detroit political and civic organizations, holding posts such as president of the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit, on the Detroit Commission on Community Relations, and as chairman of New Detroit, Inc.

Mr. Winkelman’s papers document his professional life and his activities as an influential community leader, reflecting the affairs of Winkelman Stores, Inc., and his affiliations with community organizations throughout Metro Detroit.

Eleanor Josaitis — Hands Across the Racial Divide

wlefevre — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:32:36 -0400

As a symbol, it is exquisite in its simplicity. Two hands inside a circle, one black and one white, almost but never quite touching across the racial divide. This has been the logo of Focus: HOPE, an organization fighting for basic human rights in Detroit and Southeast Michigan for over forty years. And until her death last week, one of the leaders of the fight was Eleanor Josaitis. read more »

Exhibit Announcement: Tony Spina Photographs from the 1967 Civil Unrest

eclemens — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 19:18:44 -0400

Visit the Reuther Library's Woodcock Wing gallery now through winter 2017 for an exhibition of previously unpublished photographs of Detroit's 1967 Civil Unrest by preeminent photojournalist, Tony Spina. read more »

Gallery Announcement: Images from the Jerome P. Cavanagh Photographs

eclemens — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 10:57:53 -0400

The Walter P. Reuther Library is pleased to announce our latest image gallery: Selections from the Jerome P. Cavanagh Photographs.

Jerome P. Cavanagh (1928-1979) was mayor of the city of Detroit from 1962 until 1970. Born in Detroit on June 16, 1928, Cavanagh was read more »

Subject Focus: African American History at the Reuther Library

wlefevre — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:19:12 -0500

The Reuther Library celebrates African American History Month with a look at some of the significant collections housed in the library that deal with African American history.

A gem from Rosa Parks’s collection is a set of her hand written notes from her time at the Highlander Folk School in 1955, shortly before the Montgomery Bus Boycott. These notes showcase her read more »

The Civil Unrest of 1967

eclemens — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:43:38 -0400

Despite a century of progressive innovation in Detroit, it is a sad reality that the events of July 23-27, 1967 are among the city’s defining moments. The five-day period of civil unrest and extreme chaos caused physical damage to the city and emotional trauma to its people. Decades later, the aftereffects of the damage and trauma linger on.

The violence was not totally unexpected. Rumors of an uprising had been swirling throughout the city for the better part of the summer. Radicalism was on the rise, and talk of self-determination and separatism read more »

Highlights of the Commission Meeting memoranda, Detroit Commission on Community Relations

mcourtney — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 15:55:00 -0400

DCCR memoranda condensing the minutes of council meetings, summer 1967.

(26121) Riots, Rebellions, Housing, National Guard, Boy Scouts, 1967

eclemens — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:21:54 -0400

A view of tents set up for visiting National Guardsmen and Firemen during the civil unrest of 1967 by Boy Scout troop 1428.

Courtesy Detroit News Collection.

(35775) Tony Spina Photographs; Civil Disturbance; 1967

eclemens — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:20:02 -0500

Crowds fill 12th Street during the first day of civil unrest. Detroit, Michigan. July 23, 1967.

(35776) Tony Spina Photographs; Civil Disturbance; 1967

eclemens — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:20:02 -0500

A group of men and children run down 12th Street during the first day of the civil unrest. Detroit, Michigan. 1967-07-23.

(35777) Tony Spina Photographs; Civil Disturbance; 1967

eclemens — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:20:02 -0500

National Guardsmen move in formation as they accompany police officers on patrol near Linwood Street. Detroit, Michigan. 1967-07-23.

(35778) Tony Spina Photographs; Civil Disturbance; 1967

eclemens — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:20:02 -0500

National Guardsmen during the civil unrest. Detroit, Michigan. 1967-07-23.

(35779) Tony Spina Photographs; Civil Disturbance; 1967

eclemens — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:20:02 -0500

A tank rolls down an unidentified street, likely Jefferson Avenue on Detroit's East Side. Detroit, Michigan. 1967-07.

(35780) Tony Spina Photographs; Civil Disturbance; 1967

eclemens — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:20:03 -0500

Police officers talk to residents on a porch as children watch out of the neighboring window. Detroit, Michigan. 1967-07.

(35781) Tony Spina Photographs; Civil Disturbance; 1967

eclemens — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:20:03 -0500

Residents look through the rubble of a building destroyed during the civil unrest. Detroit, Michigan. 1967-07.

(35782) Tony Spina Photographs; Civil Disturbance; 1967

eclemens — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:20:04 -0500

Members of the military walk down the center of a street during the 1967 civil unrest. Detroit, Michigan. 1967-07.

(35783) Tony Spina Photographs; Civil Disturbance; 1967

eclemens — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:20:04 -0500

A line of military vehicles make their way down a residential street during the 1967 civil unrest. "Big Shooter #4" is painted on the side of a small tank. Detroit, Michigan. 1967-07.

(35784) Tony Spina Photographs; Civil Disturbance; 1967

eclemens — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:20:04 -0500

An armored police vehicle patrols a residential area during the 1967 civil unrest. 1967-07.

(35785) Tony Spina Photographs; Civil Disturbance; 1967

eclemens — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:20:04 -0500

(35786) Tony Spina Photographs; Civil Disturbance; 1967

eclemens — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:20:04 -0500

Residents gather to watch while police block off access as buildings burn in the distance on 12th Street. Detroit, Michigan. 1967-07.

(35787) Tony Spina Photographs; Civil Disturbance; 1967

eclemens — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:20:04 -0500

A television camera crew, escorted by a member of the military, leave the scene of a massive fire during the 1967 civil unrest. Detroit, Michigan. 1967-07.

(35788) Tony Spina Photographs; Civil Disturbance; 1967

eclemens — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:20:04 -0500

A Detroit Police Officer tasked with keeping residents away from danger warily keeps an eye on events in the distance. Detroit, Michigan. 1967-07.

(35789) Tony Spina Photographs; Civil Disturbance; 1967

eclemens — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:20:05 -0500

Firefighters put down flames as Detroit Policemen look out for snipers. Detroit, Michigan. 1967-07.

(35790) Tony Spina Photographs; Civil Disturbance; 1967

eclemens — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:20:05 -0500

A young boy holding the collar of a puppy sorts through the debris of a building destroyed during the civil unrest. Detroit, Michigan. 1967-07.

(35791) Tony Spina Photographs; Civil Disturbance; 1967

eclemens — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:20:05 -0500

A member of the military carrying a radio pack stands outside of an A & P supermarket destroyed during the civil unrest. Detroit, Michigan. 1967-07.

(35792) Tony Spina Photographs; Civil Disturbance; 1967

eclemens — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:20:05 -0500

A member of the military stands guard on an unidentified street during the civil unrest. Detroit, Michigan. 1967-07.

(35793) Tony Spina Photographs; Civil Disturbance; 1967

eclemens — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:20:05 -0500

Michigan Rep. John Conyers stands on the roof of a car as he tries to convince community members to go home during the first day of the civil unrest. Detroit, Michigan. 1967-07.

(35794) Tony Spina Photographs; Civil Disturbance; 1967

eclemens — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:20:05 -0500

Members of the National Guard scan the area with rifles drawn as an unidentified photographer adjusts his camera. Detroit, Michigan. 1967-07.

(35795) Tony Spina Photographs; Civil Disturbance; 1967

eclemens — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:20:05 -0500

Members of the military gather during the Civil Unrest, likely at Southeaster High School. Detroit, Michigan. July, 1967.

(35796) Tony Spina Photographs; Civil Disturbance; 1967