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City officials reported the emergency response activities in various departments to the office of the Mayor, including emergency shelter, food, sanitation, water service, and others. Jerome P. Cavanagh Papers, Box 398 folder 19.

Mayor Cavanagh's office recieved these reports, recommendations, and memoranda regarding the need for housing created by the Civil Unrest. Senders include the Community Renewal Program and the Detroit Housing Commission. Jerome P. Cavanagh Papers,…

Masthead from the Eldon Wildcat, a publication from the Eldon Revolutionary Union Movement, a DRUM counterpart at Chrysler's Eldon Avenue plant. 1971. Source: Eldon Wildcat. Publication. Box 1, folder 2.

Campaign material for General Gordon Baker’s run for Michigan state representative. An ardent Black revolutionary and strong leader for DRUM during its inception, Baker led the group’s initial wildcat strike at the Dodge Main plant in 1968. Source:…

Graphs from HOPE 68 on grocery store conditions in “very poor and low income black” versus “white over $8,000” areas. How has access to groceries improved or worsened in Detroit since the ‘HOPE 68’ report? Along what lines (geographic, racial, class,…

Art from HOPE 68. Source: Focus: HOPE Records, Box 4, folder 15.

Pamphlet explaining the new Fair Housing Ordinance that had been passed by Detroit’s Common Council in late 1967. Before this law, nothing in Detroit legally prevented sellers, landlords, and real estate agents from denying housing to someone due to…