Michigan Memories

Arab Americans and the Automobile: Voices from the Factory

This lesson focuses on Arab immigration to America, diversity within the community, and discrimination that Arab Americans have faced. Students and teachers will use … primary sources from the Arab Americans and the Automobile: Voices in the Factory collection located at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan to learn more about these topics. Additionally, the lesson plan will also utilize other primary and secondary sources from a variety of collections and libraries that address these themes.

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Detroit Housewives League

This lesson will utilize primary sources from the Detroit Housewives League Collection, which is housed at the Detroit Public Library. The Detroit Housewives League … began in 1930 in Detroit where African American women advocated for more African American-owned businesses and pressured white businesses to hire other African Americans.

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LGBT Detroit: Civil Rights in Michigan

This lesson will use primary sources from the LGBT Detroit Records, an archival collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs … in Detroit, Michigan. LGBT Detroit, a community organization advocating for the Black LGBT community in Detroit and Southeast Michigan, donated the collection to the archives.

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