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“What It Really Means!” Detroit News story on the Renaissance Center. April 15, 1977.Source: Detroit Renaissance Records, Box 3, folder 19.

Issue of a newsletter announcing the establishment of neighborhood employment conferences to promote equal opportunity in Michigan. August 1956. UAW Women's Department: Lillian Hatcher Records, Box 1, Folder 7.

An NAACP Detroit Branch news release objects to discriminatory home loan and employment policies by a Detroit bank. October 29, 1963. NAACP Detroit Branch Records, Part I, Box 24.

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

A crowd protests the fatal shooting of a Black woman by Detroit Police.

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

National Guardsmen watch for snipers as members of the Detroit Fire Department battle a fire during the civil unrest of 1967.

National Guardsmen are pinned down by gunfire at the McGraw police station in Detroit's 6th precinct. See map of incidents to learn more about reports of sniper fire in the City.

National guardsman Gary Ciko of Hamtramck watches for snipers as buildings burn on Linwood Street.

Caption reads: "GUARD LEAVES, BUT SORROW STAYS- Some Michigan National Guard equipment rolls out of Detroit Tuesday after Civil Unrest subsided, but a woman weeps quietly as she heads for a funeral. Tanya Lynn Blanding, 4, was killed, apparently by a…

Police officers accompany National Guardsmen as they jump from their transport vehicle onto Linwood Avenue, Detroit. In the background one can see burning businesses and a police blockade. Photographer's Note: "National Guardsmen enter the Riot area.…

Students listen to Malcolm X speak in Wayne State University’s State Hall in Detroit, Michigan about the Nation of Islam, warning that, “We are not afraid to go to jail or afraid to take the life of those who take our life. We believe in fair…