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- Description:
- Man with camera glances at Detroit News photographer as a crowd of helmeted police walk down a street in a River Rouge business district toward a cloud of smoke (tear gas?) during a riot.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1970-04-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Smoke rises in background as man on left appears to be throwing something and other men, some holding sticks stand off to right, during the Flint sit-down strike against General Motors at the Fisher Body Plant. "Among the plants closed by a sit-down strike was Fisher No. 2, also in Flint, the company responded by turning off the heat, and the cold winter caused the strikers there to compare themselves to George Washington and his men at Valley Forge, then, on Jan. 11, 1937, the police tried to stop food delivery, a riot ensued, "The rioting at Flint resulted in injury to 16 strikers and spectators and 11 officers," The Detroit News reported, the condition of one striker was reported to be critical, most of the strikers were injured by buckshot fired from riot guns by the Flint police, the officers were injured principally by missiles thrown from the plant by the stay-in strikers," from The historic 1936-37 Flint auto plant strikes, by Vivian M. Baulch and Patricia Zacharias / The Detroit News, June 23, 1997.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Man with camera glances at Detroit News photographer as a crowd of helmeted police walk down a street in a River Rouge business district toward a cloud of smoke (tear gas?) during a riot.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1970-04-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- A view over the river from the Kalamazoo Street bridge, with the state capitol in the background. Note on sleeve: "No. 297. Snap L.S. Heavy haze. Oct. 15th 1902."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lawrence Family Collection
