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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.

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…

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.

Municipal/State/Federal Employees, an Unemployment Office in Detroit. Undated.

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

Demonstration in Detroit protesting the S.T.R.E.S.S. (Stop the Robberies and Enjoy Safe Streets) program. A police unit established in 1971 to address street crime, S.T.R.E.S.S. was highly controversial. Citizens accused S.T.R.E.S.S. of promoting…

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

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

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

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.

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