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

A group of young white men turn a car on its side in front of a White Tower Hamburger restaurant during the 1943 Race Riot in Detroit, Michigan.

A bloodied Black man is forcibly led away from home by uniformed police officers with nightsticks during a 1942 altercation at the Sojourner Truth Housing Project in Detroit, Michigan.

A police officer drags a Black man and woman away during an altercation following the attempted integration of the Sojourner Truth Housing Project in Detroit, Michigan in 1942.

Police outside the Vernor Street Station club a demonstrator protesting the fatal shooting of Kenneth Evans, a white youth.

A man, recently emerged from a parked car on Blaine, is stopped before entering his apartment building on the corner of Blaine and Byron, the entrance to the Kiefer Hospital command post. Officers searched the man in hopes of finding evidence from an…

A map constructed using data from the Jerome P. Cavanagh Papers and the Detroit Commission on Community Relations Office Records at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs

A sketch outlining a proposed "early warning" system for the Detroit Commission on Community Relations to identify areas of potential civil unrest in the city. May 1, 1967. Detroit Commission on Community Relations (DCCR)/Human Rights Department…

Memoranda from Harold J. Bellamy to Richard Strichartz summarizing several social and demographic studies for the City of Detroit Mayor's Committee for Community Renewal.. A notable contribution is a 1964 study conducted by Greenleigh…

Front cover of the souvenir pamphlet presented to attendees of the ceremony where the Walter P. Chrysler Expressway broke ground for what was billed as “the most complex highway engineering project ever attempted in the City of Detroit." Attendees of…

A map of the Detroit expressway system as featured in the souvenir pamphlet presented to attendees of the ground breaking ceremony for the Walter P. Chrysler Expressway. Souvenir booklet, January 30, 1959. Carl Almblad Papers, Box 8, Folder 56.

A statement from Louis Rosenzweig of the Michigan Fair Employment Practices Commission maintaining that the overwhelmingly largest number and percentage of claims brought before it are race-related, although discrimination due to religion and…