In 1956, in the middle of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, UAW Local 600, known for its militance, brought Rosa Parks to Detroit to give a talk on the Montgomery Bus Boycott — against the wishes of UAW ...

The "Great Lake State" and "Great Lakes" designs are available for an additional fee that will help improve roads around the ...

brought Rosa Parks to Detroit to give a talk on the Montgomery Bus Boycott — against the wishes of UAW President Walter Reuther. Although Reuther wasn’t initially on board with the ...

Lewis and AFL-CIO Chairman Walter Reuther, from Whiney Young of the National Urban League and Roy Wilkins of the NAACP. Mahalia Jackson had sung. King had never faced such a large crowd before ...

Philip Randolph, March organizer Whitney Young and UAW president Walter Reuther although none has the power and resonance of Doctor King’s, which many claim to be the greatest public speech ever ...

Big changes are coming to a stretch of Interstate 696 in Oakland County. Eastbound lanes of the Walter P. Reuther Freeway will close between Lahser Road in Southfield and I-75 in Royal Oak starting ...

Goodwin House Alexandria hosted a panel on Jan. 30, honoring the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. through the ...

Power is the ability to achieve purpose, power is the ability to affect change, and we need power. What is power? Walter Reuther said once that ‘power is the ability of a labor union like UAW to make ...

One of the most compelling examples? Trade union president Walter Reuther's Treaty of Detroit, in which the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and General Motors (GM) reached a groundbreaking CBA that ...