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The Freedom Now Party, representing an element of Black nationalist political thought and theory, outlines its platform for the upcoming 1964 elections. September 28, 1964. Ernest Smith Papers, Box 1.

A publication addresses post-war housing problems from a consumer’s point of view. 1944. Civil Rights Congress of Michigan Records, Box 66.

Front cover of the Ku Klux Klan’s national publication, The Kourier. June 1936. James Lindahl Papers, Box 7.

A report provides statistics comparing white and non-white men in 1950 and 1960 in various occupations in Detroit. May 1963. NAACP Detroit Branch Records, Part 2, Box 10, Folder 5. Click the image to read the selected pages from the report.

A report provides statistics comparing white and non-white men in 1950 and 1960 in various occupations in Detroit. May 1963. NAACP Detroit Branch Records, Part 2, Box 10, Folder 5.

A report provides statistics comparing white and non-white men in 1950 and 1960 in various occupations in Detroit. May 1963. NAACP Detroit Branch Records, Part 2, Box 10, Folder 5.

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.

Detroit Police attempt to disperse a crowd of white men, some armed with bats, from the area surrounding the Sojourner Truth Housing Project. The men wanted to keep their neighborhood segregated from the Black families moving into an adjacent war…

12th Street descends into chaos on the first day of the Civil Unrest of 1967. At rear, center, the Blind Pig, whose raid by police officers sparked the conflict, can be seen behind the Economy Printing sign. In the distance a photographer snaps…

A man forcibly removes a woman from a burning building during the 1967 Civil Unrest. The unidentified woman was screaming 'Mother, mother,' while being carried away from the flames. It is unknown if her mother was in the building at the time of the…

Detroit Police officer Crear Mitchell puts a bayonet on his rifle in preparation for patrol near 12th and Clairmount on the first day of the Unrest. He wears a black stocking cap over his white helmet, presumably to prevent its reflection from…

Fire in the Livernois-Fenkell area. July 29, 1975.