  Urbanoutdoors Member Username: Urbanoutdoors Post Number: 180 Registered: 11-2005 |
250,000 including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. marched down woodward. wondering if anyone has pictures? He also stayed at the book cad while he was in town. | ||
Urbanoutdoors Member Username: Urbanoutdoors Post Number: 183 Registered: 11-2005 |
it looks to have been 6/23/63 not the 21st. | ||
Aoife Member Username: Aoife Post Number: 1 Registered: 04-2007 |
There are a few pictures over at the Virtual Motor City http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/ i/image/image-idx?sid=405a96c4 e1b745718281ce9a4c4c6394&q1=fr eedom+parade&rgn1=vmc_all&op2= And&q2=&rgn2=vmc_ti&type=boole an&med=1&view=thumbnail&c=vmc Also, the Reuther Library in Detroit has quite a few as well from their UAW collections. | ||
Gsgeorge Member Username: Gsgeorge Post Number: 128 Registered: 08-2006 |
Thanks for the link, these images are fascinating. Cool to see MLK in Detroit. This image from Campus Martius is classic, dig the signs: "LET'S MOVE TO GROSSE POINTE" and "Dearborn-KKK is Michigan's 'Mississippi' KKK" (Message edited by gsgeorge on April 13, 2007) | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 789 Registered: 07-2004 |
Don't forget, the event commemorated 20 years since the 1943 race riot, in which dozens were killed, millions of dollars of property were destroyed, and the army was called in by Roosevelt. On 6-21-43, there were mobs of hundreds of white people beating black Detroiters to a pulp downtown. | ||
Urbanoutdoors Member Username: Urbanoutdoors Post Number: 184 Registered: 11-2005 |
Thats what I read in my research of George Edwards original manuscript but the web sites I have seen give other dates for some reason. |
