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The second page of a letter from a Detroit resident expressing disgust with the changing racial composition of Detroit neighborhoods. Civil Rights Congress of Michigan Records, Box 66.

The Palmyra Home Owners’ Protective Association Board of Directors announces a meeting to discuss ways to prevent minorities from purchasing homes in their neighborhood. Civil Rights Congress of Michigan Records, Box 66.

A letter from Milton Kemnitz, Executive Secretary of the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties to Jack Raskin, Executive Secretary of the Civil Rights Federation, regarding the national significance of developments at the Sojourner Truth…

Mayor Young posing with unidentified Detroit residents. c. 1977.

View from a house in Detroit’s Midtown district, designated as “blight” and suitable for redevelopment as part of the original University City project. 1964.

People wait to register for unemployment benefits at a Detroit, Michigan office located at 2nd and Amsterdam.

Three children look on as movers from Russell’s Moving and Storage unload furniture belonging to one of the first Black families to move into the Sojourner Truth Housing Project.

Firefighters attempt to extinguish a car set on fire on Woodward Avenue at Charlotte Street during the 1943 Race Riot in Detroit, Michigan.

Wartime housing units at the Oakdale Gardens Housing Project in Detroit, Michigan at 8 Mile Road and Wyoming.

The inside of a unit at the Jeffries Homes public housing project in Detroit, Michigan.

A view of the Chrysler Freeway construction project in Detroit, Michigan, looking east from the roof of the City-County Building.

Protesters, including Detroit residents, gather in Lansing, Michigan for an unemployment march.