Ku Klux Klan; Michigan. - Parade in Flint.

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

Ku Klux Klan; Michigan. - Parade in Flint.

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

Ku Klux Klan; Michigan. - Parade in Flint.

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

Ku Klux Klan; Michigan. - Parade in Flint.

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

Ku Klux Klan; Michigan. - Parade in Flint.

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

Ku Klux Klan; Michigan. - Parade in Flint.

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

Truman, Harry F. ; President United States; In Michigan; in Flint

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

Labor Unions; Auto; UAW; Officials. 1st row: Norman Matthews, Detroit; Richard Reisinger, Cleveland; Richard Gosser, Toledo; Emil Mazey, Detroit; Walter P. Reuther, Detroit; John Livingston, St. Louis; Cyril O’ Halloran, Los Angeles. 2 nd row: Thomas Starlin, Atlanta; Leonard Woodcock, Saginaw; Donel Chapan, Flint; Russel Letner, St. Louis; Martin Gerber, New York; Ray Berndt, Indianopolis; Jos. McCusker, Detroit; Cahs. Kerrigan, New York. 3 rd row: George Burt, Windsor; Wm. McAulay, Pontiac; Edw. Cote, Detroit; Chas. Ballard, Toledo; Duane Greathouse, Chicago; Paul Miley, Cleveland; Michael Lacey, Detroit

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

1917 Packard truck, nine-tenths right side view, parked on street

8x10 black and white Packard Co. file photograph of a 1917 Packard nine-tenths right side view, partially enclosed front cab, parked on street, side reads "Inter-City Trucking Service Detroit-Flint Intermediate Points," slogan on radiator reads "Save a Freight Car for Uncle Sam." Inscribed on photo back: 1917 Packard truck, World War I era (note radiator slogan), model E, long wheelbase truck chassis.

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…

An American map: essays

"This title features meditative travel essays by Michigan author Anne-Marie Oomen that explore new landscapes across America. In "An American Map", Anne-Marie Oomen, award-winning writer and self-confessed northern Michigan homebody, chronicles her recent travels across America, in essays that span rediscovered landscapes, wild back roads, vital cities, and everything in between. Oomen takes both a wide and narrow lens to her destinations, giving readers a vivid sense of each locale while findin…

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 …

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…

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.

Prayer & community: the havurah in American Judaism

Riv-Ellen Prell spent eighteen months of participant observation field research studying a countercultural havurah to determine why these groups emerged in the United States during the 1970s. In her book, she explores the central questions posed by the early havurot and their founders. She also examines the havurah as a development of American Judaism, continuing—rather than rejecting—many of the previous generations' ideas about religion. Combining history and ethnography, Prell uses current th…

A bibliography of Jewish education in the United States

This book contains entries from thousands of publications whether in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and German—books, research reports, educational and general periodicals, synagogue histories, conference proceedings, bibliographies, and encyclopedias—on all aspects of Jewish education from pre-school through secondary education