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Focus: HOPE's senior food program
Images from Focus: HOPE’s senior program. Circa 1975. Source: Focus: HOPE Records.
Focus: HOPE's senior food program
Images from Focus: HOPE’s senior program. Circa 1975. Source: Focus: HOPE Records.
Front cover article of the Cotillion News
The Cotillion Club, an organization of successful Black men in Detroit striving to gain equal rights and opportunities, uses its June 1955 newsletter to denounce a beer company for backing out of a promise to hire Black truck drivers. June 15, 1955.…
George Schermer, director of Detroit’s Mayor’s Interracial Committee, provides testimony before Robert Montgomery, Chairman, State Affairs Committee, Michigan House of Representatives
George Schermer, director of Detroit’s Mayor’s Interracial Committee, provides testimony before Robert Montgomery, Chairman, State Affairs Committee, Michigan House of Representatives in support of state fair employment practices to help alleviate…
George Schermer, director of Detroit’s Mayor’s Interracial Committee, provides testimony before Robert Montgomery, Chairman, State Affairs Committee, Michigan House of Representatives
George Schermer, director of Detroit’s Mayor’s Interracial Committee, provides testimony before Robert Montgomery, Chairman, State Affairs Committee, Michigan House of Representatives in support of state fair employment practices to help alleviate…
Guarding Against Looting, 1967
George and Gene Matti, along with their friend Tom Snider, guard their supermarket against further looting.
HOPE 68 full report
Focus: HOPE investigated the high cost of food and medicine’s role in building urban frustration. With Wayne State University, they conducted a study of the costs lower-income neighborhoods paid for groceries and prescription drugs. The comprehensive…
HOPE 68 graph
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,…
Hope 68, "The Area"
Art from HOPE 68. Source: Focus: HOPE Records, Box 4, folder 15.
Housing; Detroit; Oakdale Housing Project. 8 mile Road & Wyoming.
Wartime housing units at the Oakdale Gardens Housing Project in Detroit, Michigan at 8 Mile Road and Wyoming.
Housing; Jeffries Project; Detroit.
The inside of a unit at the Jeffries Homes public housing project in Detroit, Michigan.
Jobs Now! Conference, Detroit, 1967.
Sponsored by the Citizens Committee for Equal Opportunity and the Virginia Park Citizens Committee, a jobs fair, called the “Jobs Now! Conference,” is held at Hutchins Junior High School, near the place where Detroit’s Civil Unrest will erupt exactly…