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“Motor City Voices: Race, Labor and De-Industrialization” Hosted by the University of Michigan-Dearborn's Center for the Study of Automotive Heritage and the Art Museum Project, this exhibit highlights the contributions of Detroit activists to the radical labor and community movements post-1967. The goal of the exhibition is to shed light on the voices of radical labor and community activists who believed that the existing institutions of capitalist society thwarted, by design, the hopes and aspirations of large segments of the American population. The exhibit will consist of two parts. The first is a series of displays tracing the development of revolutionary Black labor and community leaders and the movements they led in Detroit during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Specifically, the exhibit focuses on the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM) and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. The second part of the exhibit features a video kiosk that will play clips of video oral histories. Subjects in the videos include General Baker, Grace Lee Boggs, Mike Hamlin, Marian Kramer and Jim Jacobs. In addition, two clips from a historical documentary feature the late Ken Cockrel Sr. Through November 9. Free and open to the public. The exhibit is in the Alfred Berkowitz Gallery, located on the third floor of the University of Michigan-Dearborn's Mardigian Library; hours are 9 am to 5 pm Monday through Friday. For more information, call 313-593-3592. http://www.umd.umich.edu/nc/fu llstory/article/motor-city-voi ces-1/ http://library.umd.umich.edu/i nfo/directions.html |
