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Economic Alliance for Michigan Records
Collection
Identifier: UR001328
Overview
The Economic Alliance for Michigan was established as a non-profit labor and business coalition by for-profit companies and unions in 1982. It was founded to create a forum to discuss issues they all faced in their day-to-day operations and implement plans to mitigate these problems. Their ultimate goal is to revive Michigan’s economy and preserve these working conditions to make the state a great place in which to do business and be employed. Some of the issues they are taking action on in...
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Economic Development Corporation of Greater Detroit: Michael Weston Records
Collection
Identifier: UR002358
Abstract
A graduate of Brown University and the University of Michigan Law School, Michael Weston practiced law at Hill, Lewis, Andrews, Adams, Goodrich and Power (now known as Clark Hill), before serving as Secretary (1969), Treasurer (1970) and President (1972) of the Economic Development Corporation (EDC). Developed out of the 1967 riots, the EDC of Greater Detroit was a multi-corporate consortium created as the Detroit business establishment’s vehicle to increase opportunities for African-Americans...
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG) Records
Collection
Identifier: UR001008
Abstract
SEMCOG grew out of primarily the Detroit Metropolitan Area Regional Planning Commission (DRPC) and the Supervisors Inter-County Committee (SICC) in an effort to consolidate regional planning agencies and avoid duplication of programs and services. SEMCOG has continued its predecessors' work of assisting local planning programs, collecting area planning data, and providing an infrastructure for procurement of federal aid.
Records in Part I document SEMCOG's predecessor, the DRPC, and...
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Wayne State University Oral History Course 2014 Oral Histories
Collection
Identifier: WSOH002785
Abstract
This collection consists of 16 oral history interviews. These can be broken into four categories: Southwest Detroit, Michigan Environmental Justice, Economic Development in Detroit, and Policing Detroit. There are transcripts and audio recordings for all 16 interviews.
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library