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When Martin Luther King Jr. gave his speech at Hill Auditorium on November 5, 1962, he told the students assembled there that he disagreed with U-M President Harlan Hatcher when at an address the previous month he warned them that they should “limit activity in student movements.”⁠
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“Students have a responsibility to participate,” said King, quoted in the Michigan Daily. “Education is being true to studies, yet devoting oneself to a significant cause.”⁠
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The visit made the front page of the Daily, but it was just a single column recounting the speech, mostly quotes with no commentary or analysis. ⁠
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The impact MLK's work has had on campus and the country is undeniable, but it took time to realize it.⁠
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#MLKDay #UMich #HistoryofUM #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

From all of us here at the Bentley, have a wonderful holiday and a happy New Year. ⁠
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📸: Two women on skis in Crystal Lake, Michigan, circa 1910. (George E. Butterfield papers)

Help us digitize materials and expand access to as many researchers as possible. Link in our bio.

We believe that digitization is the best way to ensure access to our materials by the most people. That includes everyone from students to academic researchers to amateur genealogists.
Now more than ever, people are relying on our online databases like the Michigan Daily Digital Archive, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies collection, and the Michigan Football Films Archive.

If you can, a donation to the Bentley Digital Strategic Fund would help us tremendously in creating, improving, and expanding our digital resources.

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A week out from Thanksgiving break, it's important to get your rest wherever you can. Even on a cold concrete slab in front of Angell Hall. ⁠
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📸: Robert Kalmbach photograph collection⁠
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#HistoryofUM #Thanksgiving #Break #TBT #ThrowbackThursday #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays the University of Michigan Marching Band from practice. ⁠
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📸: U-M News and Information services

A rainy day on campus: beautiful to behold, awful to walk through.⁠
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📸 U-M News and Info collection, circa 1983. ⁠
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#HistoryofUM #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

Willis Ward, one of the best athletes ever to don the Maize and Blue, was held out of a game against Georgia Tech 87 years ago today. Not for an injury or for a suspension, but because he was Black.⁠
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For years, there was a “gentleman’s agreement” that teams from northern states would bench their Black players when they played against schools from the Jim Crow south.⁠
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Despite the outcry from alumni, students, and Ward’s teammates (including team captain Gerald Ford), Ward sat for the game against Georgia Tech.⁠
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The game is an important part of Ward’s story, but not the only part. After graduation, Ward worked at Ford Motor Company while putting himself through law school. He worked in the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office before entering private practice.⁠
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In 1953, Ward was appointed an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. He was active in politics and was also appointed to the Northern Michigan University Board of Trustees. He finished his public career as a probate judge in Wayne County.⁠
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On September 27, 2012, the Michigan Senate unanimously passed a resolution designating October 20, 2012, Willis Ward Day in the state of Michigan. Today, a room on the first floor of the Michigan Union is designated as the Willis Ward Lounge. The lounge was dedicated May 27, 2015, with members of Ward’s family present. ⁠
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Ward’s rich and interesting legacy goes far beyond one football game. You can read more about him through the Bentley’s new online exhibit, “More than the Game.” Link in bio. ⁠
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#WillisWard #WillisWardDay #HistoryofUM #UMich #UMFootball #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

Dr. Francis Collins, former head of the Human Genome Project and director of the National Institute of Health, in his U-M lab 30 years ago this month. ⁠
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Dr. Collins was a professor at U-M from 1984 until 1993, when he left to oversee the project to map out the human genome. ⁠
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Yesterday it was reported Collins will step down from as director of the NIH, although he plans to continue his research.⁠
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#HistoryofUM #BioScience #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

"Great game - you should have been here"⁠
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Postcard from the 1905 Michigan- Wisconsin football game, featuring the team captains. ⁠
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#UMFootball #HistoryofUM #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

"September Morn" dance performed in the Huron River by Island Drive park.⁠
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📸: U-M Dept. of Physical Education for Women records⁠

Soaking in the last of the September sunshine, 1983. ⁠
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#TBT #ThrowbackThursday #HistoryofUM #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

Only 14,008 people were at the Big House to see U-M football play Western Michigan on September 25, 1943, but the game must have been quite the entertaining diversion from a world in crisis. ⁠
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Michigan won by a score of 57-6. ⁠
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#HistoryofUM #UMFootball #MGoBlue #FootballHistory #BentleyHistoricalLibrary⁠
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Move-in at Mosher-Jordan Hall, circa 1986.⁠
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#HistoryofUM #TBT #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

A family picnicking on Hammond Bay, 1971.⁠
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This photo comes from the Michigan Bell Telephone collection, which seems an unlikely place for it to be.⁠
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The Michigan Bell Telephone collection contains 93(!) boxes of photographs, most of which seem to only be tangentially related to telephones. ⁠
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#BentleyHistoricalLibrary

#TBT when William DeHart Hubbard became the first American Black athlete to win an individual gold medal when he won the long jump at the 1924 Paris Olympics.⁠
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At U-M, Hubbard was a track phenom, winning three NCAA and seven Big Ten championships.⁠
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#GoBlue #Olympics #HistoryofUM #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

We would like to thank all of our donors that make the work we do at the Bentley possible.⁠
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Sara Fitzgerald, the first female editor of The Michigan Daily, used Bentley collections and the Michigan Daily Digital Database to write her most recent book: Conquering Heroines: How Women Fought Sex Bias at Michigan and Paved the Way for Title IX. ⁠
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The Book tells the story of how a group of determined women demanded accountability and action from U-M at a time when the university was reluctant to admit that gender discrimination was an issue. ⁠
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In her acknowledgments, Sara specifically thanks the donor generosity that created the online Daily and made so much of her research possible.⁠
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Thanks to our donors, the Bentley is able to give researchers more access to history online, making primary sources available anytime, anywhere.⁠
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#BentleyHistoricalLibrary

You've just captured a notorious stagecoach robber and murderer who has wandered into your Upper Peninsula town. What do you do? ⁠
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Dress him up and take some professional photographs, of course!⁠
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That's exactly what Pat Whalen (left) and Sheriff John Glode (right) did on August 30, 1889 when they identified and apprehend Reimund Holzhey, better known as Black Bart. ⁠
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Professional photographer William Whitesides of Ironwood was hired to take the photos. He even used his fancy painted backdrop.⁠
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The full story of Black Bart, his capture, and how these tasteful photos ended up in the Bentley Historical Library archive is told in the latest issue of Collections. ⁠
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You can read it here: https://bentley.umich.edu/news-events/magazine/michigans-black-bart/⁠
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#BentleyHistoricalLibrary

The Ann Arbor Art Fair is back, as is the traditional traffic congestion and rain storms. #NatureIsHealing⁠
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This photo is from the July 1988 Art Fair via the Michigan Daily, but a poncho'd artist battening down their booth in the rain could be from any year, really. ⁠
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#TBT #AnnArborArtFair #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

Photographer Eck Stanger spent his over 50-year career documenting life in Ann Arbor, from U-M football games to epic snow storms. Some of Stanger’s enduring photos captured lost Ann Arbor traditions, like this soap-box derby from July, 1936.⁠
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Stanger’s photos crop up in many collections in the Bentley, including his own. ⁠
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#TBT #AnnArbor #A2History #BentleyHistoricalLibrary⁠

The Pavilion, an extension to the original University hospital built in 1876. ⁠
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The Pavilion also happens to be the name of the new Michigan Medicine hospital slated to open in 2025.⁠
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The names are the same, but the dress codes will be different. Probably. ⁠
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#TBT #MichiganMedicine #HistoryofUM #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

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