The Library will be CLOSING at 5pm today, Wednesday, May 22 due to unforeseen circumstances.
We will reopen tomorrow Thursday, May 23 at 9:30 am.

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By the 1960s, millions of African Americans faced pervasive discrimination in housing, education, employment, and law enforcement in the wholly unprecedented environment of the American ghetto. In the urban areas where institutional racism was most oppressive and the evolution of civil rights activity was most acute, violence was inevitable. After several long, hot summers of urban unrest throughout the United States, Detroit, Michigan exploded on...