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Focus: HOPE Oral Histories
Collection
Identifier: UOH001737
Abstract
In 2007, Reuther archivist William LeFevre conducted an oral history on the organization Focus: HOPE, interviewing its co-founder, Eleanor Josaitis, and longtime supporter Senator Carl Levin. The civil and human rights organization Focus: HOPE emerged in March of 1968 in the aftermath of the 1967 Detroit riots. Its aims were and are to overcome racism and poverty and foster social justice, racial integration, and urban employment through food distribution, human relations, and job training...
Dates:
2007-07-10; 2007-10-19
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Maurice Kelman Papers
Collection
Identifier: UP001282
Abstract
Attorney Maurice Kelman taught at Wayne State University Law School and served as Special Counsel to Mayor Jerome Cavanagh. Part 1 of Mr. Kelman’s papers, which reflect his career as an attorney and arbitrator, primarily relate his work as Special Counsel to Mayor Cavanagh.Part 2 of the Collection spans the years of 1943 to 2012, including materials from Kelman's early life attending Durfee Intermediate and Cass Technical High Schools, further education at the University of Michigan,...
Dates:
1943 - 2012; Majority of material found within 1968 - 1974
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Roman Gribbs Oral History
Item
Identifier: UOH002286
Abstract
In August-September 2004, labor historian Mike Smith conducted a series of three interviews with former Detroit mayor Roman Gribbs. Collection consists of recordings and transcripts for a series of three interviews. Gribbs discusses his background, education, and early career in law and law enforcement, including his time as sheriff of Wayne County following the 1967 civil unrest, and his time as mayor, from 1970 to 1974.
Dates:
2004-08-07 - 2004-09-17
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes Oral Histories
Collection
Identifier: UOH001605
Abstract
In 1989, the Detroit Urban League initiated a project to create an oral history of Detroit’s African American community, underrepresented in traditional histories of the city, focusing on the period of 1918 through 1967, from near the time of the League’s founding to the civil unrest of 1967. Elaine Latzman Moon, then on staff at the Detroit Urban League, led the project and interviewed more than 200 participants from all walks of life, ages, and social and economic status, including many...
Dates:
1990 - 1994
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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