New Detroit, Inc. Records

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New Detroit, Inc. Records

1967-1975

http://archives.wayne.edu/repositories/2/resources/299

On August 1, 1967, immediately following the Detroit riot, Michigan Governor George Romney, Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanagh and J. L. Hudson department store chain president Joseph L. Hudson, Jr. announced the formation of the New Detroit Committee (as it was originally called), a citizens' coalition comprised of a cross-section of community leaders committed to finding solutions to the problems that had spawned that summer's violence and destruction. New Detroit not only serves as a forum for identifying urban problems, but also promotes strategies to reduce them by providing financial and technical assistance to grassroots community development programs and to a multitude of New Detroit-initiated projects. The records of New Detroit, Inc. consist of correspondence, reports, minutes, clippings, speech material, publications, surveys, and project proposals related to the administration and programs of the organization.

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Wayne State University. Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs

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Wayne State University. Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs

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Archer, Dennis W. (Dennis Wayne), 1942-

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Dennis Wayne Archer (born January 1, 1942) is an American lawyer, jurist and former politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he notably served as the 67th Mayor of Detroit, Michigan, the second African American to serve in the office, from 1994 to 2001. Born in Detroit, Michigan and raised there and in rural Cassopolis, Michigan, he graduated from Ross Beatty High School in Cassopolis before attending Wayne State University, the Detroit Institute of Technology, and Western Michigan Unive...