Michigan

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/1/2023
  

  How Labor Won the Repeal of "Right to Work" in Michigan

  by Jennifer Standish

  Labor and its political allies must recognize the importance of state level legislation and coalition-building and resist the temptation to nationalize politics if they hope to repeat their success in Michigan and roll back the state-by-state advance of anti-labor legislation. 

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• SOURCE: WDET
  7/22/2022
  

  Preserving Detroit's Native History

  Karen Marrero of Wayne State University discusses how oral traditions have kept indigenous histories alive even as many physical markers of that history have been destroyed. 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  11/19/2020
  

  Why Michigan’s Top Legislators Should Cancel that Meeting with Trump

  University of Michigan law professor Richard Primus: Since Michigan's House and Senate leaders have previously declared their intention to respect the state's popular vote for Joe Biden, if they change their minds after a meeting with Trump it would expose them to credible accusations and potential prosecution for accepting bribes--crimes for which Trump can't pardon them.

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• SOURCE: Bridge Michigan
  11/6/2020
  

  I Was a Detroit Poll Challenger. The GOP Came to Make Havoc.

  by Danielle L. McGuire

  "The counting hadn’t even started yet; the ballots hadn’t yet arrived at the counting boards and already it was clear that the GOP challengers were there to sow confusion and suspicion."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/30/2020
  

  In Michigan, a Suburban County That Flipped Blue Isn’t Looking Back

  Oakland County, which was solidly red 12 years ago, is solidly blue, becoming a prime example of the changes that are taking place in many of the nation’s suburbs.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  10/20/2020
  

  ‘It’s Negligence’: U. of Michigan Students Ordered to ‘Stay in Place’ After Covid-19 Cases Surge

  Washtenaw County health officials are confronting the administration of the University of Michigan over their planning process for reopening campus as local cases associated with the university surge. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/8/2020
  

  The Plot Against Gretchen Whitmer Shows the Danger of Private Militias

  by Mary B. McCord

  There is no right in any state for groups of individuals to arm themselves and organize either to oppose or augment the government.

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• 10/9/2020
  

  FBI Arrests Plotters to Kidnap Michigan Governor, Highlighting Trump's "Liberate Michigan" Rhetoric

  On October 8, the FBI announced multiple arrests in a plot to kidnap Michigan's Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer, whose support for lockdown measures to fight COVID-19 moved Trump to call on right-wing mobs to "Liberate Michigan." 

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• SOURCE: Detroit News
  10/8/2020
  

  Feds Say They Thwarted Militia Plot To Kidnap Whitmer

  The FBI announced that it thwarted a conspiracy to kidnap Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer who has drawn attacks from the far right over her advocacy for lockdown policies to stop the spread of COVID-19. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  9/8/2020
  

  Michigan State to Rename Building That Honored Klan Member

  Stephen Nisbet was a longtime educator and trustee of Michigan State University. Evidence suggests he also was a member of the Klan during its 1920s resurgence. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/17/2020
  

  The Militias Against Masks

  After its emergence in the 1990s, the Michigan militia movement was dormant until the Obama years. The state's COVID lockdowns have brought a mix of libertarians, racists and anti-government radicals into a prominent public role again. 

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  5/3/2020
  

  Whitmer Says Michigan Protests 'Depicted Some of the Worst Racism and Awful Parts of Our History'

  Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said protests inside the state Capitol last week, featuring demonstrators with assault weapons, swastikas and Confederate flags, depicted some of the “worst racism and awful parts” of the nation’s history.

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• SOURCE: The Jurist
  4/25/2020
  

  Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Rules Students Have the Right to Basic Minimum Education

  The decision in a suit brought by Detroit students against the state of Michigan referenced a number of historic cases and revives the question of whether inequality among school systems violates equal protection under the Constitution.

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• SOURCE: Michigan Live
  2/8/20
  

  University of Michigan plans teach-in, including history of climate activism, ahead of 50th Earth Day anniversary

  For Matt Lasseter, professor of history at UM, putting Earth Day and its ties to Michigan into historical context is key.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  9/17/19
  

  The 1936 Strike That Brought America’s Most Powerful Automaker to its Knees

  The historical precedent to this week's GM United Auto Workers union strike. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/7/19
  

  Is the U.S. a Democracy? A Social Studies Battle Turns on the Nation’s Values

  Michigan spent five years debating how to teach American history. One of the biggest questions was how to describe the nation’s government.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  3-18-14
  

  Michigan teacher gives 5th-graders non-alcoholic beer for history lesson

  In completely unrelated news, Drunk History is returning to Comedy Central. It's not even in this wire story. We promise.

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• SOURCE: Detroit Free Press
  10-10-13
  

  Michigan's affirmative action ban has 'chilling effect,' Kevin Gaines

  Gaines is a plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking to overturn the ban.

• SOURCE: Indianapolis Star
  7-29-13
  

  Detroit-area plant where Rosie the Riveter worked facing demolition

  YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, MICH.—The Detroit-area factory where Rosie the Riveter showed that a woman could do a “man’s work” by building Second World War-era bombers, making her an enduring symbol of American female empowerment, will be demolished if money can’t be found to save it.The Willow Run Bomber Plant, a 135-hectare former Ford Motor Co. factory west of Detroit that churned out nearly 9,000 B-24 Liberator bombers during the Second World War, is slated to be torn down unless a group can raise $3.5 million by Thursday to convert at least some of the structure into a new, expanded home for the nearby Yankee Air Museum.“The younger generation needs to know what people went through and be able to go and see what they did and how they did it for our country,” Larry Doe, a 70-year-old Ypsilanti Township resident who has given to the cause, said recently before joining other donors for a trip on a B-17....

• SOURCE: WSJ
  7-22-13
  

  Detroit files bankruptcy (2013), Michigan defaults (1842)

  The massive bankruptcy of Detroit last week could put bondholders in jeopardy of not getting all their money back.It isn’t the first time that the holders of bonds issued in Michigan have had problems: Something similar happened 170 years ago.In the aftermath of the real-estate bubble of the mid-1830s and the bust that followed, Michigan became one of nine states to repudiate at least part of their debts....