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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 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 in support of state fair employment practices to help alleviate…

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.

A report provides statistics comparing white and non-white men in 1950 and 1960 in various occupations in Detroit. May 1963. NAACP Detroit Branch Records, Part 2, Box 10, Folder 5. Click the image to read the selected pages from the report.

A report provides statistics comparing white and non-white men in 1950 and 1960 in various occupations in Detroit. May 1963. NAACP Detroit Branch Records, Part 2, Box 10, Folder 5.

A report provides statistics comparing white and non-white men in 1950 and 1960 in various occupations in Detroit. May 1963. NAACP Detroit Branch Records, Part 2, Box 10, Folder 5.

Front cover of a brochure for Central Park Plaza. Designed by the architectural firm of Giffels and Rosetti, Central Park Plaza offered "every convenience for easier, finer living." The majority of residents displaced by Central Park Plaza's…

Back cover of a brochure for Central Park Plaza, which features a map of the area. Designed by the architectural firm of Giffels and Rosetti, Central Park Plaza offered "every convenience for easier, finer living." The majority of residents displaced…

Envisioned and designed to build a "new type of inner city habitation," Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh released the final report for the Gratiot Redevelopment Project in 1964, eighteen years after planning began. Detroit was the first city in the United…

A discrimination complaint filed by L. Miller, a Black employee of Detroit manufacturing company Ex-Cell-O, explains the circumstances that prevented his job advancement. July 9, 1956. UAW Fair Practices and Anti-Discrimination Department Records,…

The final report of a discrimination complaint filed on July 9, 1956 by L. Miller, a Black employee of Detroit manufacturing company Ex-Cell-O, explains that, "Management tries to help the average white worker to get a better job, but in order for a…