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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: Grand Rapids nuclear freeze movement
Artwork highlights a People’s History in Grand Rapids – Print #17: People Resisting Nuclear War in Grand Rapids
Last semester, art students in Brett Colley’s GVSU 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
Part II of Interview with Mark Kane on the West Michigan Nuclear Freeze Campaign in the early 1980s
This is the second part of a two part interview with former Director of the Institute for Global Education Mark Kane. Part I In this second part of our interview with Mark Kane, Mark addresses in more detail the kinds … Continue reading
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