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