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The DetroitPublic Library Friends Foundation Receives $87,400 Grant for theColeman A. Young Mayoral Papers
Detroit – The Detroit Public Library FriendsFoundation (DPLFF) has received a grant in the amount of $87,400 to process theColeman A. Young Mayoral Papers. Thegrant was awarded by the Council of Library and Information Resources (CLIR) tothe DPLFF through the efforts of its Executive Director, Patrice Merritt.
CLIRadministers The Cataloguing HiddenSpecial Collections and Archives Program with the generous support of TheAndrew W. Mellon Foundation. Since the program began in 2008, the MellonFoundation has invested over $16 million in revealing previously hiddencollections of high scholarly value.
ColemanA. Young (1918-1997) was the first African American mayor of Detroit and itslongest serving mayor elected to five consecutive terms from 1973-1993. The Coleman A. Young Mayoral Papers consistof 1,175 boxes of documents from Young's twenty years as mayor of Detroit. Thebulk of the documents pertain to communications from city of Detroitdepartments, the federal government, and a wide array of groups, organizations,and citizens from Detroit and Michigan. The records will be broken down intothe following correspondence series: Businesses; Citizen's Letters; City ofDetroit departments; Detroit Economic Development Corporation; State ofMichigan; Wayne County; U.S. Government....
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