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Detroit's Walk to Freedom
Posted June 16th, 2011 by eclemens
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- African-Americans
- Cavanagh, Jerome P.
- Civil rights
- Demonstrations -- Michigan -- Detroit
- Desegregation
- Detroit--race relations
- Detroit--social conditions
- Diggs, Charles C.
- Discrimination in housing--Michigan
- Edwards, George
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- NAACP
- Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
- Swainson, John B. (John Burley), 1925-1994
- Urban Affairs
On June 23, we celebrate the anniversary of what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. described as “one of the most wonderful things that has happened in America” -- Detroit’s Walk to Freedom. Organized by the Detroit Council on Human Rights (DCHR), the Walk to Freedom was the largest civil rights demonstration in the nation’s history. Its purpose was to speak out against segregation and the brutality that met civil rights activists in the South while at the same time addressing concerns of African Americans in the urban North: inequality in hiring practices, wages, education, and housing. The date of the march, June 23, 1963, was chosen to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 1943 Detroit Riots in which 34 people, the majority of them African American, were killed. read more »
Trial of the Michigan Six
Posted June 11th, 2013 by kchinery
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On October 14, 1949, 11 members of the National Board of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) were convicted of violating the Smith Act of 1940 by advocating the overthrow of the government of the United States with force and violence. The ten-month trial, which took place in New York City, captured the country’s attention with its sensational events both inside and outside of the courtroom. More importantly, it established a precedent for prosecuting other communists across the country. read more »
Manuscript and Records Collections - Recently Opened
The following list contains titles of Reuther manuscript and records collections added or updated within the previous two months. Click on each title for more information about the collections, including collection guides and finding aids.
Please contact William LeFevre, William.LeFevre@wayne.edu, Reference Archivist for more information.
| AFSCME Local 1259: Detroit Public Library Records | 06/06/2013 - 11:11 |
| Wayne State University Information Center Records | 05/06/2013 - 14:45 |
| Mildred Connely Grade Books | 05/06/2013 - 10:50 |
| Elvin Davenport Papers | 05/03/2013 - 16:36 |
| Sam Fishman Papers | 05/03/2013 - 12:40 |
| Mackenzie Union Financial Records | 05/03/2013 - 12:23 |
| Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Records | 05/03/2013 - 11:45 |
| Dan Trivich Papers | 05/02/2013 - 17:50 |
| SEIU Local 535 Records | 04/26/2013 - 16:20 |