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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

October 12- November 9, 2007
Motor City Voices: Race, Labor, and De-Industrialization. Exhibit. Alfred Berkowitz Gallery, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn

May 1 - Sept. 1, 2008
Motor City Voices: Race, Labor, and De-Industrialization. Exhibit at Ford Rouge Factory Tour Visitor Center, Dearborn. Exhibit open: Monday -- Saturday, 9:30 AM -- 5:00 PM. Tours begin at the Henry Ford Museum building, 20900 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn. Tickets: $8.50 - $14 (child/youth/adult/senior). Visit: www.thehenryford.org or 313-982-6001.

Motor City Voices: Labor, Race, and De-Industrialization -- (2006)

Grant Awarded: November 2006

Type of Grant: We the People Grant

Sponsor: Center for Automotive Heritage at the University of Michigan-Dearborn

Contact: Bruce Pietrykowski, 313-593-3970, bpie@umd.umich.edu

Website: www.autolife.umd.umich.edu

Award: $14,998

This project will collect between four to six video oral histories of the key participants in the largely African American, grassroots labor movement aimed at confronting both technological changes on the shop floor and economic changes affecting neighborhoods throughout Detroit. These oral histories will become the centerpiece of a museum exhibit, Motor City Voices: Race, Labor, and De-Industrialization, depicting the history, ideas, and ideals embodied in these labor and community movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

The exhibit will be shown on the UM-Deaborn campus, at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, and at the Henry Ford in Dearborn. They will also be made permanently available in an online version of the installation, which will be linked to the Race and Labor sections of UM-Dearborn's website, Automobile in American Life and Society. Copies of the histories will be archived at the center .