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Souvenir pamphlet, Detroit Expressways, map, 1959
A map of the Detroit expressway system as featured in the souvenir pamphlet presented to attendees of the ground breaking ceremony for the Walter P. Chrysler Expressway. Souvenir booklet, January 30, 1959. Carl Almblad Papers, Box 8, Folder 56.
Statement from the Michigan Fair Employment Practices Commission to the Senate Sub-Committee on Unemployment
A statement from Louis Rosenzweig of the Michigan Fair Employment Practices Commission maintaining that the overwhelmingly largest number and percentage of claims brought before it are race-related, although discrimination due to religion and…
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…
Newsletter of the Michigan Fair Employment Practices Commission
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.
Report of the Detroit Commission on Community Relations, “Detroit Metropolitan Area Employment and Income By Age, Sex, Color and Residence”
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.
Report of the Detroit Commission on Community Relations, “Detroit Metropolitan Area Employment and Income By Age, Sex, Color and Residence”
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.
Report of the Detroit Commission on Community Relations, “Detroit Metropolitan Area Employment and Income By Age, Sex, Color and Residence”
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.
Brochure, Central Park Plaza, front cover, c. 1962
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…
Brochure, Central Park Plaza, back cover, c. 1962
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…
Brochure, Gratiot Redevelopment Project, cover, 1964
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…