The Detroit Sunday Journal

The Detroit Sunday Journal was a weekly tabloid newspaper, published by striking union workers from the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press. The strike began in July, 1995; spanning four years and just over 200 editions, the Sunday Journal was published from November 19, 1995, through November 21, 1999. Circulation for most editions was 40,000-60,000. It was available through t…

Newspapers; Detroit; Detroit Journal. - Explosion of Nov. 6, 1895.

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

Newspapers; Detroit; Detroit Journal. - Explosion of Nov. 6, 1895.

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

Newspapers; Detroit; Detroit Journal. - Explosion of Nov. 6, 1895.

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

Churches; Baptist: Temple Baptist Church. -6125 Fourteenth Street. -New Sunday School

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

Henderson, Erma; President Detroit City Council 1978. -Taken by Gary Porter for Special Article in Sunday Magazine 6-3-79

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

Henderson, Erma; President Detroit City Council 1978. -Taken by Gary Porter for Special Article in Sunday Magazine 6-3-79

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

Restaurants; Boesky; Twelfth and Hazelwood Where Harry Millman was shot.

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

1922-1923 Packard touring car at Fireman's Monument, St. Joseph, Mich.

7.5x9.5 black and white photograph of a 1922-1923 Packard left side view, top raised, female standing at driver's door, parked in front of monument in St. Joseph, Mich., 1922. Inscribed on photo back: Packard 133, first series single-six (produced 4/20/1922-12/27/1923), 6-cylinder, 54-horsepower, 133-inch wheelbase, 7-person touring car (body type #225), monument erected to commemorate the bravery of those [firemen] who heroically gave up their lives in the performance of duty at the burning of …

The Detroit Sunday Journal:: February 25, 1996

Issue of The Detroit Sunday Journal, a weekly newspaper published by striking workers during the Detroit Newspaper Strike.

The Detroit Sunday Journal:: June 28 - July 3, 1998

Issue of The Detroit Sunday Journal, a weekly newspaper published by striking workers during the Detroit Newspaper Strike. Includes coverage of decisive labor complaints and rulings related to the strike.

All-American anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the labor movement

All-American Anarchist chronicles the life and work of Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933), Detroit's prominent labor organizer and one of early labor's most influential activists. A dynamic participant in the major social reform movements of the Gilded Age, Labadie was a central figure in the pervasive struggle for a new social order as the American Midwest underwent rapid industrialization at the end of the nineteenth century.

This engaging biography follows Labadie's colorful career from …

Letter from Mary Van Riper to Henry Van Riper, March 22, 1865

Letter from Mary Van Riper to Henry Van Riper discussing school life and acquaintances.

Maurice Sugar: law, labor, and the left in Detroit, 1912-1950

It was Maurice Sugar, labor activist and lawyer for the United Auto Workers, who played a key role in guiding the newly-formed union through the treacherous legal terrain obstructing its development in the 1930s. He orchestrated the injunction hearings on the Dodge Main strike and defended the legality of the sit-down tactic. As the UAW's General Council, he wrote the union's constitution in 1939, a model of democratic thinking. Sugar worked with George Addes, UAW Secretary-Treasurer, to nurture…

Expanding the frontiers of civil rights: Michigan, 1948-1968

Although historians have devoted a great deal of attention to the development of federal government policy regarding civil rights in the quarter century following World War II, little attention has been paid to the equally important developments at the state level. Few states underwent a more dramatic transformation with regard to civil rights than Michigan did. In 1948, the Michigan Committee on Civil Rights characterized the state of civil rights in Michigan as presenting "an ugly picture." Tw…

Uppermost Canada: the Western District and the Detroit frontier, 1800-1850

The publication of this volume in a freely accessible digital format has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation through their Humanities Open Book Program.

Independent man: the life of Senator James Couzens

First published in 1958 by Charles Scribner’s Sons, Independent Man is the only book-length biography of one of Michigan’s most remarkable men. His many careers embraced both the business and political spheres.

Toast of the town: the life and times of Sunnie Wilson

As part of the great migration of southern blacks to the north, Sunnie Wilson came to Detroit from South Carolina after graduating from college, and soon became a pillar of the local music industry. He started out as a song and dance performer but found his niche as a local promoter of boxing, which allowed him to make friends and business connections quickly in the thriving industrial city of Detroit. Part oral history, memoir, and biography, Toast of the Town draws from hundreds of hours of ta…

The iron hunter

Originally published in 1919, The Iron Hunter is the autobiography of one of Michigan's most influential and flamboyant historical figures: the reporter, publisher, explorer, politician, and twenty-seventh governor of Michigan, Chase Salmon Osborn (1860-1949). Making unprecedented use of the automobile in his 1910 campaign, Osborn ran a memorable campaign that was followed by an even more remarkable term as governor. In two years he eliminated Michigan's deficit, ended corruption, and produced t…

Survival and regeneration: Detroit’s American Indian community

Survival and Regeneration captures the heritage of Detroit's colorful Indian community through printed sources and the personal life stories of many Native Americans. During a ten-year period, Edmund Jefferson Danziger, Jr. interviewed hundreds of Indians about their past and their needs and aspirations for the future. This history is essentially their success story.

In search of new opportunities, a growing number of rural Indians journeyed to Detroit after World War II. Destitute rese…