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Michigan Quarterly Review
Threads pulled though: University of Michigan 1960-1964 to Now
Wallis Wilde-Menozzi | October 9, 2020 U-M authors
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Rosa Parks visiting campus in February, 1983 as part of the University's Black History Month event: "The Civil Rights Movement in Retrospect: Looking Backward to Move Forward."⁠
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Rosa Park's visit made front page news at the Michigan Daily.⁠
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📸: DAAS digitized collection. ⁠
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#BlackHistoryMonth #RosaParks #HistoryofUM #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

Together we can overcome anything the world throws at us. ⁠
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In this photo Ann Arbor police help dislodge a taxi from a snow back circa 1939. ⁠
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It's from a series of Ann Arbor slice-of-life photos taken by local photographer Eck Stanger. Stanger was a photographer for The News and Booth Newspapers for over 50 years.⁠
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The Eck Stanger collection is available for researchers at the Bentley. ⁠
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#AnnArbor #AnnArborHistory #Snow #SnowDay #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

“My strongest motivations have been to get good Black poets published, to produce beautiful books, help create and define the soul of Black folk, and to know the joy of discovering new poets,” - Dudley Randall on the founding of Broadside Press.⁠
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Randall was best known for his poems "The Ballad of Birmingham" and "Booker T. and W.E.B." ⁠
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He was declared Poet Laureate of Detroit by Mayor Coleman Young in 1981. ⁠
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His papers are at the Bentley and are open to research. ⁠

John C. Dancy, community activist and executive director of the Detroit Urban League, address a crowd in front of Ann Arbor's Dunbar Community Center.⁠
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Dancy was joined by U-M President Ruthven to celebrate the paying-off of the mortgage on the 420 N Fourth Avenue building. ⁠
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Dunbar Community Center's stated purpose was "to promote civic and cultural and recreational interest and activities to serve all ages and both sexes and to direct character building and community betterment programs among the colored citizens of Ann Arbor and its suburbs"⁠
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Dancy was the executive director of the Detroit Urban League from 1918 to 1960.⁠
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The papers of John C. Dancy, the Dunbar Community Center (now Ann Arbor Community Center), and the Detroit League are all in the Bentley Archive.⁠
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#BlackHistoryMonth #AnnArborHistory #DetroitHistory #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

The star chart of James Watson with his hand-written observation of the planet Vulcan.⁠
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Watson, U-M professor and the second director of the Detroit Observatory, had been on a quest to discover a new planet and cement his legacy. ⁠
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In the summer of 1878, he headed west to observe a solar eclipse, confident he would find a new planet. The story of his quest—preserved in his papers at the Bentley—reveals the challenges of science in the late-1800s and the fine line separating fascination and folly.⁠
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Get the full story in the latest Collections, available now online. Link in bio.⁠
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#HistoryofUM #Astronomy #Eclipse #TotalEclipseoftheHeart #Vulcan #BentelyHistoricalLibrary

Professor William Hobbs (center), had to pause his everything at U-M’s Greenland Expedition in 1928 to rescue two pilots who crash landed on the ice.⁠
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Read the story of the harrowing rescue in this month's Collections magazine, available online now. Link in bio. ⁠
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#HistoryofUM #Arctic #ArcticRescue #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

Polio vaccine clinic sponsored by the Urban League of Greater Muskegon, 1959

Pathways to navigate a snow-covered Diag after a blizzard, circa 1983. ⁠
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📸: U-M News and Information collection⁠
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#HistoryofUM #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

Jonas Salk and U-M Professor Thomas Francis announcing on April 12, 1955 that the polio vaccine was "80-90% effective in preventing paralytic polio." ⁠
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A few weeks after their announcement at that U-M sound stage, Ann Arbor school children began to receive their inoculations.⁠
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A few years after, polio was all but eradicated.⁠
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#HistoryofUM #PolioVaccine #UMich #UMMedicine #BentleyHistorical Library⁠
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From everyone here at the Bentley, may you have a safe and peaceful holiday season.

Michigan Stadium has gone through many rebuilding phases in its 93 years. ⁠
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In 1969 the Big House was outfitted with "Tartan Turf", 3M's answer to Astroturf. ⁠
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Turf technology has since come a long way and there have been many improvements, including a major overhaul in 1991.⁠
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#UMichFootball #TheBigHouse #BentleyHistoricalLibrary #HistoryofUM

You can help us digitize materials and expand access to as many researchers as possible. Link in our bio.⁠
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We believe that digitization is the best way to ensure access to our materials to the most people. That includes everyone from students to academic researchers to amateur genealogists.⁠
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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 Bentley Image Bank.⁠
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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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Help Make Michigan History Digital. ⁠

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃📚⁠
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Bentley staff and patrons have many opportunities to take photos of the wild turkeys that roam North Campus. After the safe removal of one ornery tom a few years ago, the flock grazing by the Bentley's front lawn or courtyard has been a welcome sight.

We know we aren't the only ones who are missing students being on campus.⁠
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For our sake and the sake of Ann Arbor's rotund squirrels, be safe out there. We hope to see you soon. ⁠
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#BentleyHistoricalLibrary #UMSquirrels

Murals adorn the outside of the Library of Afro-American and African studies on Haven Street, Ann Arbor.⁠
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The Department of Afroamerican and African Studies is celebrating its 50th year at U-M. ⁠
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DAAS has been among the Bentley's most frequent and enthusiastic collaborators across a range of teaching and archival fronts. The DAAS collection has been digitized and much of it is available online. ⁠
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#HistoryofUM #DAAS #History #BlackHistory #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

"Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus" ("We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes")⁠
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Father Gabriel Richard created the motto for Detroit after the city was destroyed in a massive fire in 1805. Richard and his friend Augustus Woodward helped rebuild the city. ⁠
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In 1817, the pair moved on to their next project: a school that would become the University of Michigan.⁠
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#MichiganMonday #Detroit #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

This Thursday at 7pm join U-M Professor Juli Highfill who will discuss the context and impact of the Great Depression and the rise of fascism on the U-M student body. ⁠
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Link to register in the bio.⁠
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You will gain an understanding of the large mobilization of students and faculty during this time (with examples of events organized by the Progressive Club and efforts by the Medical Aid Committee to send supplies to Spain). And you’ll learn about four students who volunteered and fought in Spain with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the controversy on campus after the capture and presumed execution of Ralph Neafus, one of the volunteers.⁠
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#MakingMichigan #BentleyHistoricalLibrary #History

A "flute playing minstrel and her feathered friend entertained a lunchtime crowd on the Diag" according to the 11/22/1978 Michigan Daily. Her performance was intended to promote vegetarianism. ⁠
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Persuasion via recorder and live fowl? Bold strategy. 🦃🎵 ⁠
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#NorthCampusTurkey #Thanksgiving #TurkeyDay #HistoryofUM #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

Football, soccer, and rugby all had a common ancestor in a game played in the 1800s. The platypus on this evolutionary tree is the game of pushball, a 100-a-side melee that technically had the objective of putting a giant inflated ball into a net but was at it's core a way for U-M graduating classes to brawl with each other.⁠
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Pushball was a staple of class games through the 1920s. ⁠
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#HistoryofUM #Football #FOOBAWL #TBT #ThrowbackThursday #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

U-M Engineering has been making cars safer through technology even before the technology could easily fit into the back seat.⁠
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Here a camera is recording what the driver sees during a Highway Safety Research Institute test.⁠
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#UMich researchers today are on the cutting edge of autonomous driving and safety at Mcity. With much less bulky equipment.⁠
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#HistoryofUM #Mcity #SelfDrivingCars #BentleyHistoricalLibrary⁠

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