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Wade H. McCree, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: UP000822
Abstract
Wade Hampton McCree, Jr. began his career as a lawyer in the Detroit law firm of Harold E. Bledsoe and Hobart Taylor. He later served on the state’s Workmen’s Compensation Commission and as a judge in the county and U.S. court system. During his tenure on the bench, McCree took part in a number of school desegregation cases iand as the government’s lawyer, he argued a number of significant cases before the Supreme Court. He resigned in 1977 to accept appointment as U.S. Solicitor General in the...
Dates:
1937 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1954 - 1987
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
WDIV Transcripts
Collection
Identifier: UAV001112
Abstract
WDIV began as WWDT in March of 1947. It was the first television station in Michigan and the sixth in the United States. The call letters were changed to WWJ-TV in May of 1947. Less than a month later, the station’s first newscast was televised. By June of 1947, WWJ-TV began with daily programming of just six and half hours a day, Tuesday through Sunday. Tiger baseball, Lion Football, Red Wing Hockey, college football, and the Detroit Thanksgiving Day Parade were some of the events of...
Dates:
1973 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1977 - 1978
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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