Subject Guide
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Welcome!
Welcome to the guide for Researching and Exploring Detroit!
I hope that you will find this guide a useful starting place for information on the City of Detroit. I have assembled a core collection of resources available through the Wayne State University Library System, as well as high quality, freely available web resources. This guide is a collaborative work-in-progress, developed with the suggestions and feedback from students and faculty.
I am available by appointment to assist students and faculty with research related to the City of Detroit.
Katrina Byrne
Special Projects Librarian
12th Street Detroit: The History of Detroit's 1967 Civil Unrest
Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University
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12th Street Detroit Digital ExhibitThis exhibit explores the history of Detroit’s 1967 Civil Unrest through the deliberate and transparent use of primary sources located at the Reuther Library. We aim to let archival documents speak for themselves, allowing visitors of the exhibit to draw their own conclusions. The exhibit begins with World War II, in order to better understand how Detroit's social and political landscape developed into the 1960s. Events of late July 1967 are illustrated throughout the middle portion of the exhibit. The last panels of the exhibit highlight organizations created to address some of the root causes of the unrest in the years following.
Welcome to Detroit
Detroit Skyline
Gonzalez, Evan. Detroit Stock City. 2015.
Keep Growing Detroit - Plum Garden Market
Ross, Cody. Detroit Stock City. 2013.
Grand Circus Park
Gonzalez, Evan. Detroit Stock City. 2015.
Trunk or Treat
Ross, Cody. Detroit Stock City. 2015.
Movement Electronic Music Festival
Cochran, Cody. Detroit Stock City. 2013
Eastern Market
Gonzalez, Evan. Detroit Stock City. 2015.
Greektown at Sundown
Ansara, Stevie. Detroit Stock City. 2015.
Open Streets Detroit
Castile, Leah. Detroit Stock City. 2016.
Campus Martius Park
Ross, Cody. Detroit Stock City. 2014.
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