Dept. of Journalism (University of Michigan) research papers 1967-1978

Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951

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William Randolph Hearst Sr. (April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American businessman, newspaper publisher, and politician known for developing the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications. His flamboyant methods of yellow journalism influenced the nation's popular media by emphasizing sensationalism and human interest stories. Hearst entered the publishing business in 1887 with Mitchell Trubitt after being given control of The San Francisco Examiner by his ...

Crockett, George W. (George William), 1909-1997

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George William Crockett Jr. (August 10, 1909 – September 7, 1997) was an African-American attorney, jurist, and congressman from the U.S. state of Michigan. He also served as a national vice-president of the National Lawyers Guild and co-founded what is believed to be the first racially integrated law firm in the United States. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, on August 10, 1909, Crockett was the son of George Crockett, Sr., a carpenter, and Minnie Jenkins Crockett. He attended public schools i...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities (1934-1975)

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From 1934 to 1937 The U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities began as the Special Committee on Un-American Activities and was also known as the McCormack-Dickstein Committee. The Dies Committee, was created on May 26, 1938, with the approval of House Resolution 282, which authorized the Speaker of the House to appoint a special committee of seven members to investigate un-American activities in the United States, domestic diffusion of propaganda, and all other questions relating thereto...

Louis, Joe, "Brown Bomber", 1914-1981

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Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981), known professionally as Joe Louis, was an American professional boxer who competed from 1934 to 1951. He reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1937 to 1949, and is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. Nicknamed the Brown Bomber, Louis' championship reign lasted 140 consecutive months, during which he participated in 26 championship fights. The 27th fight, against Ezzard Charles in 1950, was a challenge ...

Mckinley, William, 1843-1901

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President William McKinley was the 25th President of the United States. He was beginning his second term as President after winning the election in 1900. On Sept. 5, 1901 he and his wife were attending the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York when he was shot by as assassin waiting in line to shake his hand. After being attended by physicians, he was resting at the exposition's director's home in Buffalo, NY. He seemed to be recovering when his condition rapidly worsened on Sept. 14th. P...

Murphy, Frank, 1890-1949

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Mayor of Detroit; Governor of Michigan; Governor General of the Philippine Islands; associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. From the description of Frank Murphy papers, 1893-1960 (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 369174924 Mayor of Detroit, governor of Michigan; justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. From the description of Frank Murphy autograph book, 1930-1942. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 85778857 Detroit (Mich.) Recorder...

Detzer, Karl, 1891-1987

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Leland, Michigan, journalist and author. From the description of Karl William Detzer papers, 1916-1981. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421612 Karl Detzer was born September 4, 1891 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. A journalist and free-lance writer, Detzer began his career working for a Fort Wayne newspaper as a reporter and photographer. Following service in World War I, he came to Chicago where wrote advertising copy. He would leave this to write full-time on his o...

Associated press

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Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949

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Publisher of the Detroit News. From the description of George Gough Booth papers, 1905-1935 (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 658824581 Founder of Booth Newspapers, Michigan newspaper chain. From the description of George G. Booth papers, 1892-1894, 1897-1918 and 1924-1926. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418388 Publisher, art administrator, art patron, founder of Cranbrook Academy, 1932; Detroit, Mich. Died 1949....

Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881

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James Garfield, twentieth President of the United States, was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1831. After embarking on an academic career, he joined the Ohio volunteer infantry regiment, and in 1863 was appointed Major General in the same regiment. He served as a member of the U. S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1880, when he was elected President. His inauguration took place on March 4, 1881, but his term of office was unfortunately brought to an abrupt end with his assassination by C...

Nader, Ralph, 1934-

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Ralph Nader (b. Feb. 27, 1934, Winsted, CT) graduated from Princeton University (1955) and received an LL.B. from Harvard Law School (1958). After law school he served in the U.S. Army as a cook. Starting in 1959, Nader began practicing as a lawyer in Hartford, CT, while lecturing at the University of Hartford. He was also a writer for the Christian Science Monitor and The Nation. In 1964, he relocated to Washington, DC to serve as a consultant to Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick M...

Perry, Stuart Hoffman, 1874-1957

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Publisher of the Adrian Telegram at Adrian, Michigan. From the description of Stuart Hoffman Perry papers, 1874-1966. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 85777634 Publisher of the A̲d̲r̲i̲a̲n̲ T̲e̲l̲e̲g̲r̲a̲m̲ at Adrian, Michigan. From the description of Stuart Hoffman Perry papers, 1892-1955. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421321 Stuart Hoffman Perry was born October 13, 1874 in Pontiac, Michigan, the son of Aaron...

WCHB (Radio station : Inkster, Mich.)

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Lathers, Swift, 1889-1970.

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Storey, Wilbur F., 1819-1884

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Cook, Marshall L., 1858-1955.

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Editor and publisher, with his brother, William Randolph Cook, of the H̲a̲s̲t̲i̲n̲g̲s̲ B̲a̲n̲n̲e̲r̲ in Hastings, Michigan. From the description of Marshall L. Cook papers, 1880-1945. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423372 Marshall L. Cook was born August 12, 1858 in Prairieville Township, Barry County, Michigan. After attending Albion College, he returned to Hastings, Michigan where he purchased an interest in the Hastings Banner newspaper around...

WPAG (Radio station : Ann Arbor, Mich.)

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United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln).$$tEmancipation Proclamation.

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Beal, Junius E. (Junius Emery), 1860-1942

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Ann Arbor, Michigan, businessman, publisher of Ann Arbor Courier, Republican politician, and regent of University of Michigan. From the description of Junius Emery Beal papers, 1869-1946. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 82628269 From the description of Junius Emery Beal papers, 1882-1946. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421837 Junius E. Beal was born February 23, 1860 in Port Huron, Michigan. He graduated from the Universit...

Richard, Gabriel, 1767-1832

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French priest and missionary in Detroit, Michigan; also co-founder of the Catholepistemiad (or University of Michigan). From the description of Gabriel Richard papers, 1792-1832. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34420837 Richard was born at Saintes, France on Oct. 15, 1767. He was well educated and became a priest of the Sulpitians, a society devoted to the care of young men for the sanctuary in 1791. In 1792 he came to Baltimore (Md.), moving to Detroit (Mich.)...

Corselius, George, 1806-1849.

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Librarian at University of Michigan and editor of the Western Emigrant. From the description of George Corselius papers, 1833-1865. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34420016 ...

Coughlin, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1891-1979

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Detroit area priest known for his opposition to President Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal programs. From the description of Charles E. Coughlin photograph collection. 1934-1936. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 85778938 Father Charles E. Coughlin was Roman Catholic priest, renowned as founder and pastor of the Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Michigan. Father Coughlin gained a wide following for his Sunday afternoon radio addresses on political and ...

Applegate, Harriet Marie.

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University of Michigan. Department of journalism

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The study of journalism at the University of Michigan began in 1890/91 when Fred Newton Scott, assistant professor of rhetoric, started a course on rapid writing. This course was dropped in 1893/94, and no further journalistic instruction was offered until 1903 when Scott brought together various courses to form a Rhetoric Department. One of these courses was Rhetoric 13 (Newspaper writing), which continued with modest additions until 1916 when a special program in journalism was-es...

Ford, Henry, 1863-1947

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Industrialist and philanthropist Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. Mechanically inclined from an early age, he worked in Detroit machine shops as a young man and became an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in 1891. Henry and Clara Jane Bryant, married in 1888, had one child, Edsel, born in 1893. In that same year, Henry tested his first internal combustion engine, and by 1896 completed his first car, the Quadricycle. Ford partnered in ...

Miller, Floyd Josiah, 1886-1954.

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Editor and publisher of T̲h̲e̲ D̲a̲i̲l̲y̲ T̲r̲i̲b̲u̲n̲e̲, South Oakland County, Michigan, newspaper. From the description of Floyd J. Miller papers, 1907-1954. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34420734 Floyd Josiah Miller was editor and publisher of the Daily Tribune, a south Oakland County, Michigan, newspaper. From the guide to the Floyd Josiah Miller papers, 1907-1954, (Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan) ...

Ufer, Robert Pormann, 1920-1981.

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Hogan, Henry M.

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Smith, Gerald L. K. (Gerald Lyman Kenneth), 1898-

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Gerald Lyman Kenneth Smith was born February 27, 1898 in Pardeeville, Wisconsin. Called to the ministry like his father, Lyman Z. Smith, and other members of his family before him, Smith attended Valparaiso University and Butler University in Indiana, and was then ordained a minister of the Disciples of Christ. In 1922, Smith married Elna Marion Sorenson, who came to be an active and important co-worker in the causes of her husband. During his early ministry, Smith held ...

International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America

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Cook, William Randolph, 1866-1946.

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Woman's christian temperance union

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Temperance organization founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1874. Campaigning against the use of alcohol and in favor of labor laws and prison reform, the W.C.T.U. became one of the largest and most influential women's organizations of the 19th century. It became global when the World W.C.T.U. was founded in 1883. The organization continued to exist through the 20th century, although membership declined after the passage of the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) in 1919. From the description of ...

Osborn, Chase S. (Chase Salmon), 1860-1949

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Author and newspaper editor at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, University of Michigan regent and Republican governor of Michigan, 1911-1912. From the description of Chase Salmon Osborn papers, 1889-1949. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423228 Chase S. Osborn was born in Huntington County, Indiana on January 22, 1860, the son of George A. and Margaret (Fannon) Osborn. He married Lillian G. Jones on May 7, 1881. Osborn was a newspaperman and author before becoming ...

Foster, Theodore, 1812-1865.

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Co-editor of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Signal of Liberty; Superintendent of State Industrial School for Boys, and editor of Lansing Stat Republican. From the description of Theodore Foster papers, 1835-1862. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34420253 ...

University of Michigan.

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...

Coffman, Al.

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Radulovich, Milo 1927-

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Vandenberg, Arthur H. (Arthur Hendrick), 1884-1951

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U.S. Senator from Michigan (1928-1951). From the description of Arthur H. Vandenberg papers, 1936-1941. (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 620820101 Republican member of the U.S. Senate from Michigan, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and delegate to the United Nations Conference in San Francisco in 1945. From the description of Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg visual materials series [microform]. ca. 1896-1950. (University of Michigan). Wo...