Title: New Detroit, Inc. Collection Genre: Records Date: 1967-1975 Size: 232 linear feet ID#: 660 OCLC: ©Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs HEFA.01c.update |
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Scope & Contents
On August 1, 1967, immediately following the Detroit riot, Michigan Governor George Romney, Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanagh and J. L. Hudson department store chain president Joseph L. Hudson, Jr. announced the formation of the New Detroit Committee (as it was originally called), a citizens’ coalition comprised of a cross-section of community leaders committed to finding solutions to the problems that had spawned that summer’s violence and destruction.
New Detroit not only serves as a forum for identifying urban problems, but also, by providing financial and technical assistance to grass roots community development programs and to a multitude of New Detroit-initiated projects, promotes strategies to reduce them. The organization’s work is divided among several task forces and subcommittees focusing on a wide range of issues: racial and ethnic discrimination, unemployment and job training, minority business development, inadequate health care and housing, drug abuse, substandard education, police harassment, family assistance and child development.
The papers of New Detroit, Inc. consist of correspondence, reports, minutes, clippings, speech material, publications, surveys, and project proposals related to the administration and programs of the organization.
African-American Cultural Development Foundation
Afro-Americans--Economic conditions--Michigan--Detroit
Afro-Americans--Education--Michigan--Detroit
Afro-Americans--Employment--Michigan--Detroit
Afro-Americans--Housing--Michigan--Detroit
Afro-Americans--Medical care--Michigan--Detroit
Afro-Americans--Michigan--Detroit
Afro-Americans--Social life and customs--Michigan--Detroit
Child development--Michigan--Detroit
Community development, Urban--Michigan--Detroit
Community organization--Michigan--Detroit
Consumer education--Michigan--Detroit
Detroit (Mich.) riot, 1967
Discrimination in education--Michigan--Detroit
Discrimination in housing--Michigan--Detroit
Drug abuse--Michigan--Detroit
East Side Voice of Independent Detroit
Family services--Michigan--Detroit
Hispanic Americans--Economic conditions--Michigan--Detroit
Hispanic Americans--Social conditions--Michigan--Detroit
Indians of North America--Economic conditions--Michigan--Detroit
Indians of North America--Social conditions--Michigan--Detroit
Inner City Business Improvement Forum
Juvenile delinquency--Michigan--Detroit
Mayor’s Committee on Human Resource Development
Medical care--Michigan--Detroit
Metropolitan Detroit Citizens Development Authority
Metropolitan Fund
Narcotic addicts--Rehabilitation--Michigan--Detroit
Occupational training--Michigan--Detroit
Police--Complaints against--Michigan--Detroit
Poor--Michigan--Detroit
Public relations--Police--Michigan--Detroit
Public welfare--Michigan--Detroit
Race relations--Michigan--Detroit
Social problems--Michigan--Detroit
Southeast Michigan Council of Governments
Unemployment--Michigan--Detroit
West Central Organization
Wolverine Bar Association
Youth--Services for--Michigan--Detroit
Nathaniel Brooks
George E. Bushnell, Jr.
Carol Campbell
Malcolm Carron, S. J.
Jerome Cavanagh
Clyde Cleveland
Frank Ditto
Hyram Dooha
Lawrence P. Doss
Walter E. Douglas
Norman Drachler
Max M. Fisher
Henry Ford II
Al Frank
Roman Gribbs
Paul Hubbard
Joseph L. Hudson, Jr.
Richard Huegli
Arthur L. Johnson
Frank T. Judge, Jr.
Damon J. Keith
Theodore Lawe
Alan Lowery
Buzz Lutterel
Kent Mathewson
Sharon Nelton
William T. Patrick, Jr.
Lonnie Peek
Walter P. Reuther
Richard Richards
Anthony Rios
Robert W. Spencer
Steven Stockmeyer
Lynn A. Townsend
Charles Tucker
Robert Wack
Stanley J. Winkelman
Leonard Woodcock
Coleman Young
Several photographs, audio tapes and items of memorabilia have been placed in the Archives Audiovisual Collection and a large number of books and other publications have been transferred to the Archives Library.
Contents-[Large files]
232 Storage Boxes
Series I, Housing and Economic Development, 1967-75, Boxes 1-38,
Series II, Education, Youth, Health, and Community Services, 1967-75, Boxes 38-100,
Series III, Research, Planning, & Community Self-Determination, 1967-75, Boxes 100-111,
Series IV, Public Safety and Justice, 1967-72, Boxes 119-130
Series V, General Subject Files, 1968-74, Boxes 130-172,
Series VI, Administration, 1967-74, Boxes 173-232,