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Recent Posts
- Just after the Depression years, the Grand Rapids City Government provided direct relief and created a public works project for those unemployed
- Some examples of the conditions for blacks in Grand Rapids and what types of discrimination blacks faced on a daily basis in the early part of the 20th Century
- “Maybe America has forgotten how smoke smells”: The state of Black Grand Rapids from the perspective of Paul I Phillips in the mid-1970s
- African Americans from Grand Rapids who were part of the US Civil War
- 1970 document sheds light on the housing crisis in Grand Rapids and the lack of political will to solve it
Tag Archives: Barb Lester Interview
Our history tells us to speak up and current events motivate us to act up – An Interview with Barb Lester
When did you first get involved in the Nuclear Freeze Campaign and what motivated you to get involved? I remember the exact moment I became involved in Nuclear Freeze Campaign. In the spring of 1982 I saw a photo on … Continue reading →
Grand Rapids People's History Project 