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Subject focus: Jewish Detroit Experience
Posted April 12th, 2011 by wlefevre
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- City of Detroit
- Detroit (Mich.)
- Detroit--race relations
- Discrimination in housing--Michigan
- JCA
- Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit
- Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
- Jews--America
- Michigan--History
- Neighborhoods--Michigan--Detroit
- Race relations
- Subject focus
- University Archives
- Urban Affairs
- Wayne County (Mich.)--History
- Wayne State University
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 Archives (JCA), the Reuther Library has a wealth of information on the Jewish community in Detroit and surrounding environs. The JCA holdings include, but are not limited to, the papers of: read more »
Subject Focus: African American History at the Reuther Library
Posted February 1st, 2011 by wlefevre
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- Affirmative action
- African-Americans
- Civil rights
- Civil rights--America--Cases
- Crockett, George W.
- Detroit (Mich.)
- Detroit (Mich.) -- Riot, 1967
- Detroit--race relations
- Detroit--social conditions
- Hate crimes
- Human rights
- Integration
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- Michigan Organization for Human Rights
- Michigan--History
- Michigan--politics and government
- Minorities--Civil rights
- Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005
- Police-community relations
- Race relations
- Racism
- School integration
- Segregation
- Subject focus
- United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964.
- Wayne County (Mich.)--History
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 »
