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Memoranda from Harold J. Bellamy to Richard Strichartz summarizing several social and demographic studies for the City of Detroit Mayor's Committee for Community Renewal.. A notable contribution is a 1964 study conducted by Greenleigh…

Lease for five commando armored cars from the Cadillac Gage Company to the city of Detroit. July 24, 1967.

Material located in box 398, folder 7.

This document represents a summary of a Detroit Police Department incident report relating to the raid at a "blind pig," or unlicensed bar. This event is often cited as the beginning of Detroit's 1967 Civil Unrest.

Material located in box 398,…

A man, recently emerged from a parked car on Blaine, is stopped before entering his apartment building on the corner of Blaine and Byron, the entrance to the Kiefer Hospital command post. Officers searched the man in hopes of finding evidence from an…

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…

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…

A map constructed using data from the Jerome P. Cavanagh Papers and the Detroit Commission on Community Relations Office Records at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs

Katrina Bryant, 2, holds her mother’s finger and drinks a carton of milk outside of Grace Episcopal Church. She and her mother received assistance from the church’s “food station” which was established to feed families made homeless or displaced…

Donors fill Red Cross headquarters in downtown Detroit as they try to replenish the blood supply for Detroit during the Civil Unrest of 1967.

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.

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

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