12.7 linear feet, 1 oversize box, 3 oversize volumes, and 4.22 GB (online)

Arranged in four series: 1. Personal Files 2. Professional Files 3. Project Files 4. Audiovisual Materials.

Writer, journalist, news broadcaster, radio host, television producer, creative consultant, and teacher who began his career at age seventeen when he founded The Fifth Estate, Detroit’s first underground newspaper.

Documentation of Ovshinsky’s personal and professional lives. Includes correspondence, autobiographical writings, memorabilia, photographs, newspaper clippings, back issues of the Fifth Estate, legal materials and creative guidelines for various production projects, unpublished drafts of stories and scripts, topical files, lesson plans, speeches, and a collection of audiovisual materials representing a sample of Ovshinsky’s work with Detroit radio and television stations from the 1960s through the 2000s.

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