Tag: Detroit
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This is my story: The beginning of reclaiming the past to look to the future
This is my story: Detroit 1967 is in the infancy of development. So, what is it again? It is a multimedia archive and repository that serves to catalog and historicize this canonical and significant time in the 20th century with oral histories from eyewitnesses and participants of the rebellion. This endeavor is a continuation of…
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This is my story: Detroit 1967
“They [the media] just referred to it as a riot. Down on the ground it looked like a rebellion. But the media and the power structure had a lot of things wrong,” said Ed Vaughn, activist and businessman in Detroit.[1] This is my story: Detroit 1967 is an oral history based multimedia project, which looks…