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Giving the Archives a Makeover
Recently, U-M School of Information students reimagined the public spaces at the Bentley to make them more user-friendly and accessible. The project gives the archive plenty of ideas for implementation.
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Ecology Center of Ann Arbor and Teach-In on the Environment oral histories, 2017-2020
83.1 GB (online) The Ecology Center of Ann Arbor and Teach-In on the Environment oral histories is a collection of recordings conducted by the University of Michigan students and faculty. The interviews primarily focus on Environmental Action (ENACT) and the Teach- In on the Environment in 1970, and the history of the first Earth Day…
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National Council of Negro Women, University of Michigan Ann Arbor Collegiate Section records, 2013-2017
25 MB (online) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor chapter of the National Council for Negro Women (NCNW). Includes a digital copy of the organization’s 2017 constitution as well as digital outreach materials captured from their Twitter account. Finding aid
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James L. Curtis papers, 1927-2017
5 linear feet, 1 oversize photograph, 2.03 GB (online) African American Psychiatrist, University of Michigan Medical School graduate (1946). Dr. Curtis was an advocate for affirmative action in medical schools and worked to improve the medical field for both Black patients and Black physicians. Record types include correspondence, research, reports, student counseling files, patient records,…
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How to Qualify as a Person
Forty-nine years before women were granted the right to vote in the United States, a no-nonsense widow named Nannette Gardner would cast her ballot in Detroit, giving the suffrage movement a notable victory.
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Charles G. Palmer papers, 1897, 1929-1930
0.3 linear feet A civil engineer for the Austin Company in Cleveland, Ohio, who worked in the Soviet Union in 1929. Photographs and a journal documenting Palmer’s work on an auto plant construction site near Nizhnii Novgorod. Also, an Alaska travel journal dated 1897. Finding aid
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The Unsinkable Sarah E. Ray
In 1945, Sarah Elizabeth Ray was denied passage on a steamboat on the Detroit River because she was Black. She fought the injustice, and today her trailblazing civil rights role is being preserved — including through a new collection.