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Subject Focus: African American History at the Reuther Library

... On the organizational front, such entities as Focus:HOPE and New Detroit grew out of the turmoil of the 1960s and battled ...

Blog entry - wlefevre - 10/01/2013 - 10:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Subject Focus: Poverty and Charity in Turn-of-the-Century Detroit

... documented in the records of New Detroit, Inc. and Focus: HOPE , and in the papers of Detroit leaders and social reformers such as ...

Blog entry - teller - 10/01/2013 - 11:52 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Reuther Library Access Update

... continues to serve your needs as researchers with a focus on safety considerations to keep our staff, researchers, and communities ... can remotely for now. As soon as it is safe to do so, we hope to welcome you in person again. If you are part of a donor ...

Blog entry - mcourtney - 08/16/2021 - 09:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Hidden Gem: A.G. and Marie Mezerik Papers

... are important medium-sized collections too, among them Focus Hope, the United Farm Workers and the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW). ...

Blog entry - aergas - 10/09/2015 - 14:52 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Collection Spotlight: Ramon S. Scruggs, Sr. Papers

... Scruggs from many other civil rights figures was his focus on improving racial equality through integrating African Americans into ... and the country took stock of his accomplishments. Our hope is that the collection raises awareness and produces greater insight into ...

Blog entry - gstrassel - 03/20/2015 - 17:02 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Judge Damon J. Keith: Summer GSA Project

... Lab (APREL). After much consideration I decided to focus my project on Judge Damon J. Keith. I wanted my topic to be relevant yet ... of their own power when creating their future legacies. I hope this lesson will leave them with the idea that they too could have a great ...

Blog entry - Public Relation... - 09/18/2019 - 09:24 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Guest Post: The Ronald Raven Annual Award, Fall 2014

... this internship as a joint History MA student with a focus on urban cities in post-1945 America and as a MLIS student, as this ... benefited the community as a whole, such as the Areas of Hope in a Divided World Conference. Detroit has been a city steeped in a ...

Blog entry - Public Relation... - 01/20/2015 - 11:54 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Transcripts to the Black Workers in the Labor Movement Oral History Project to go Online

... will spur a greater level of research. While the focus of the oral history project is on African American men in the auto ... -- or heirs thereof -- listed in bold with the hope of obtaining releases, as we prefer to secure releases before moving ...

Blog entry - ljones - 12/02/2020 - 15:16 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

50 Years Later: the Kerner Commission and the Poor People's Campaign

... their disappointment with the federal government’s focus on the Vietnam War rather than the War on Poverty. They called this ... country as people mourned the loss of a central source of hope and pride. Despite the trauma caused by Dr. King's passing, leaders in ...

Blog entry - mcourtney - 03/21/2018 - 09:37 - 0 comments - 0 attachments