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| Author | : John Vincent Jezierski |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 366 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780814324516 |
The story of the most prolific African American photographers in North America. From its beginnings in York, Pennsylvania, in 1847, until the death of Wallace L. Goodridge in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1922, the Goodridge Brothers Studio was the most significant and enduring African American photographic establishment in North America. In Enterprising Images, John Vincent Jezierski tells the story of one of America's first families of photography, documenting the history of the Goodridge studio for three-quarters of a century. The existence of more than one thousand Goodridge photographs in all formats and the family's professional and personal activism enrich the portrait that emerges of this extraordinary family. Weaving photographic and regional history with the narrative of a family whose lives paralleled the social and political happenings of the country, Jezierski provides the reader with a complex family biography for those interested in regional and African American, as well as photographic, history.
| Author | : Diane Batts Morrow |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780807854013 |
Annotation Founded in Baltimore in 1828, the Oblate Sisters of Providence formed the first permanent African-American Roman Catholic sisterhood in the United States. Exploring the antebellum history of this pioneering sisterhood, Batts Morrow demonstrates the centrality of race in the Oblate experience.
| Author | : Roger Rosentreter |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 534 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780814330814 |
Accompanying histories explain the reasons behind the conflicts and include maps showing all theaters of operations for Michigan troops. The in-depth accounts of the state's role in these hostilities often serve as the first serious and comprehensive studies of the contributions made by its citizens in these events."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : David Lee Poremba |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780814328705 |
Culled from a wide variety of references, Detroit in Its World Setting is a timeline that offers readers a new appreciation of Michigan history by setting life in the Motor City in the context of world affairs. For each year, readers can follow the march of time in four categories-city and state events, national and world history, cultural progress, and scientific and commercial progress-that cover countless events over the three centuries since the city's founding as well as the people involved in them. Originally published in 1953, Detroit in Its World Setting has been revised and updated to mark the city's 300th birthday in 2001. Expanded coverage includes such subjects as women's achievements, the African American community, ethnic communities, city landmarks, and public education. No other book offers the opportunity to see the city's life in this sweeping context. As entertaining as it is informative, Detroit in Its World Setting is a fitting birthday present for the city-and its citizens.
| Author | : William Ashworth |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 2003-07-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780814328378 |
A detailed picture of the status of the Great Lakes at the end of the twentieth century.
| Author | : Sidney Fine |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 462 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780814328750 |
Although historians have devoted a great deal of attention to the development of federal government policy regarding civil rights in the quarter century following World War II, little attention has been paid to the equally important developments at the state level. Few states underwent a more dramatic transformation with regard to civil rights than Michigan did. In 1948, the Michigan Committee on Civil Rights characterized the state of civil rights in Michigan as presenting "an ugly picture". Twenty years later. Michigan was a leader among the states in civil rights legislation. Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights documents this important shift in state level policy and makes clear that civil rights in Michigan embraced not only blacks but women, the elderly, native Americans, migrant workers, and the physically handicapped. Sidney Fine's treatment of civil rights in Michigan is based on an exhaustive examination of unpublished, published, and interview sources. Fine relates civil rights developments in Michigan to civil rights actions by the federal government and other states. He focuses on the administrations of the three governors -- Democrats G. Mennen Williams (1949-1960), and John B. Swainson (1961-1962), and Republican George Romney (1963-1969) -- and the roles they played in furthering civil rights in Michigan, as well as other politicians and policymakers. Students of state history, civil rights history, and those interested in post-World War II history will find few accounts as broad ranging as this study of state civil rights legislation during the years the book covers.
| Author | : Mark L. Thompson |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 2004-04-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780814332269 |
A historically accurate, well-rounded picture of shipwrecks on the Great Lakes.
| Author | : Howard Henry Peckham |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780814324691 |
Pontiac and the Indian Uprising is both informative and reflective of the attitudes that existed fifty years ago about Native Americans.
| Author | : N. Daniel Rupp |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780814329993 |
An introductory biography of Baraga, lengthy passages from his letters, vignettes about persons in the text and a comprehensive bibliography yield an in-depth portrait of mid-nineteenth century life, especially in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It was 1831 when Father Frederic Baraga arrived in this country from his native Slovenia. He had come to bring Christianity to the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of the Old Northwest. Twenty years later, when Baraga first heard that he might be named Bishop of Upper Michigan, he began to keep a "daybook" or diary. Intended as a private document for his own use and reference, the diary contains a log of Baraga's missionary journeys, his observations about daily weather conditions, ship movement on the lakes, and a running account of the various works he accomplished. Between the lines of the usually concise entries, however, there are clues to Baraga's zeal, dedication, and generosity. An introductory biography of Baraga, lengthy passages from his letters, vignettes about persons in the text and a comprehensive bibliography yield an in-depth portrait of mid-nineteenth century life, especially in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
| Author | : Stanley J. Winkelman |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780814329429 |
Stanley J. Winkelman (1922-1999) was a powerful and influential man in the Detroit business community. After graduating from the University of Michigan and becoming a research chemist, Winkelman later joined the family retail business started by this father and uncle in the early part of the century. Although Winkelman is credited with transforming the retail industry through shrewd business deals with overseas markets, his dedication to religious, civic, and community affairs influenced much of Detroit’s social history. A Life in the Balance is the memoir of this great Detroit business leader. Stanley J. Winkelman, World War II veteran and native Michiganian, revolutionized the retail industry by bringing reasonably priced European career fashions to women. He was a lifetime member of the local chapter of the NAACP, active in the Jewish Community Council, lifetime member of the Temple Beth El, and during the 1967 Detroit riot took an active role in keeping city businesses from leaving city limits and improving race relations. Winkelman was also an active member of New Detroit—an organization formed after the 1967 riots dedicated to increasing communication with the African American community—along with such leaders as Henry Ford II and Walter P. Reuther. A Life in the Balance is not only the personal memoir of a Detroit business leader but also a record of Detroit’s social history through the life of one of its most prominent citizens. Readers interested in Detroit history will find Stanley Winkelman’s story an inspiring read.
