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Mock-up of the proposed riverfront domed football stadium. c. 1969.

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.

Image from the groundbreaking ceremony of the Detroit Renaissance Center. May 22, 1973.

Mayor Young and R&B musician Stevie Wonder speaking together. September 26, 1974.

Picketers on Wayne State University’s campus protesting, among other things, open housing in Detroit, October 12, 1967.

Protesters outside the Veterans Memorial Building where a conference addressing the needs of the nation’s poor, attended by President Jimmy Carter, was taking place. 1977.

The New Detroit Committee’s first official group portrait, taken at Wayne State University in October 1967.

The defendants in the Algiers Motel Incident trial. Three police officers and a private security guard (second from left), after their acquittal by an all-white jury on federal conspiracy charges. February 25, 1970.

Mayor Coleman Young in front of the under-construction Renaissance Center. June 20, 1975.

Violence erupts during demonstration by Nazi group in Kennedy Square. August 22, 1981.

Image of Coleman Young being sworn in. January 2, 1974.