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Focus: HOPE investigated the high cost of food and medicine’s role in building urban frustration. With Wayne State University, they conducted a study of the costs lower-income neighborhoods paid for groceries and prescription drugs. The comprehensive…

George and Gene Matti, along with their friend Tom Snider, guard their supermarket against further looting.

George Schermer, director of Detroit’s Mayor’s Interracial Committee, provides testimony before Robert Montgomery, Chairman, State Affairs Committee, Michigan House of Representatives in support of state fair employment practices to help alleviate…

George Schermer, director of Detroit’s Mayor’s Interracial Committee, provides testimony before Robert Montgomery, Chairman, State Affairs Committee, Michigan House of Representatives in support of state fair employment practices to help alleviate…

The Cotillion Club, an organization of successful Black men in Detroit striving to gain equal rights and opportunities, uses its June 1955 newsletter to denounce a beer company for backing out of a promise to hire Black truck drivers. June 15, 1955.…

Images from Focus: HOPE’s senior program. Circa 1975. Source: Focus: HOPE Records.

Images from Focus: HOPE’s senior program. Circa 1975. Source: Focus: HOPE Records.

HOPE Food Prescription Programs poster. Undated. The HOPE 68 report demonstrated Focus: HOPE’s work to highlight issues of race and poverty. In 1971, the State of Michigan named them the host agency for the Commodity Supplemental Food Program in…

A flyer announces a March 13, 1942 rally to support integration at the Sojourner Truth Housing Project as a way to combat Hitler and win World War II. 1942. Box 67.

A flyer created in 1942 by white residents asks for assistance from people outside their neighborhood at Nevada and Fenelon to keep Black residents from moving into the Sojourner Truth Housing Project in Detroit, Michigan.

Flyer published by the Sojourner Truth Citizens Committee to rally support for integrated housing at the Sojourner Truth Housing Project. 1942. Civil Rights Congress of Michigan Records, Box 67.

A flyer announces a demonstration against instances of police brutality and killings of Black Detroiters. May 15, 1965. Detroit Commission on Community Relations (DCCR)/Human Rights Department Records, Part 1, Series VI, Box 14.