General Baker Institute Library

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General Baker Institute Library
Description
The General Baker Institute Library is a community library and reading space building on the legacy of Detroit labor organizer General Gordon Baker Jr.’s lifelong work. Inspired by Baker’s co-founding of Detroit and Hamtramack’s respective Revolutionary Union Movements (RUMs) movement of the late 1960s, the GBIL is focused on Black labor knowledge centering labor forward and anticapitalist works to increase political education amongst working class Black Detroiters. GBIL is a hidden gem located on Detroit’s Westside in the Pilgrim Village neighborhood.
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Photo taken by Camille A. Jackson. Community Library at General Baker Institute (2022).
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General Baker Institute located at 15798 Livernois, Detroit, MI 48238
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Black Michigan Libraries
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Detroit Wayne County east michigan labor anticapitalist book lending community library

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