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On June 23, 1963, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. walked down Woodward Ave. as part of the Detroit Freedom March. The next day, he first delivered his famous "I Have A Dream" speech.
Founder Ron Williams donated his collection for the project
Before 1938, The Labor News survives only in scattered copies.
You may not have known, but Harry Houdini performed his last show in downtown Detroit before dying at a Detroit hospital in 1926.