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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: Clark Goodrich
Artwork highlights a People’s History in Grand Rapids – Print #3 – People First!
This past semester, art students in Brett Colley’s class on printmaking, invited me to come talk about the Grand Rapids People’s History Project. The intent of the class was to have students investigate their own part of a People’s History … Continue reading
Fighting Institutional Bias: An Interview with Disability Rights activist Clark Goodrich
This is the first in a series of interviews and postings that looks at the people and the history of the Disability Rights Movement in West Michigan. We recently had the chance to have a lively conversation with Clark Goodrich, … Continue reading
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