A 1971 Statement of the League of Women Voters of Detroit made at the public hearing of the Central School Board. They make clear their position in favor of busing, and state their concerns that magnet schools will not be able to facilitate integration of Detroit's public schools.
A 1971 Statement of the League of Women Voters of Detroit made at the public hearing of the Central School Board. They make clear their position in favor of busing, and state their concerns that magnet schools will not be able to facilitate integration of Detroit's public schools.
Stevie Wonder discovered by Motown Records Company at age 9. Can play the piano, organ, harmonica, drums, and sing without lessons. Ardeen Johnson, Motown exec: "I think one day he'll be the biggest star who ever walked through these doors." Stevie is the first Motown artist to go overseas, be in a movie, and be on network TV. Normally autographs in Braille. "Whatever's poppin', you've alwaus got to pop with it."
This 1919 silent film is thought to be one of the first sympathetic portrayals of homosexuality on screen. Telling the story of a gay musician and his boyfriend who are blackmailed by a acquaintance, it was made to protest German laws that criminalized homosexual relations between men.
A sign-up form distributed by the Student Peace Union among local students in Ann Arbor. Students planning to join the Union were required to confirm several moral commitments and to pay 3 dollars in dues.
Photograph of student using an early PLATO terminal to solve a mathematical equation. From the original caption: "Teaching Machine developed in Coordinated Science Laboratory under Prof. Don Bitzer."
Photograph of a student using PLATO software on Atari 800, Texas Instruments 99/4A, Apple II Plus microcomputers. Caption reads: "October 19, 1982--Control Data Corporation, Minneapolis-based computer and financial services company, has just announced conversion of its PLATO software for use on Texas Instruments 99/4A, Atari 800 and Apple II Plus microcomputers. PLATO is a self-paced, highly interactive computer-based education system."
Photograph of a student user seated at a monitor and keyboard comprising a student terminal of the PLATO III educational computer system. From the original caption: "This PLATO III student terminal is being used to display the population growth curve for given birth and death rates. The PLATO System of the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory has been programmed to teach subjects ranging from nursing to elementary school mathematics. Remote student terminals are connected to the central computer by wide-band telephone lines and can be located wherever the instruction is to be given."
Photograph of a student using the PLATO IV terminal. Caption reads: "Control Data Corporation's computer-based education system distributes instructional materials in the form of text, numbers, animated drawings and other graphics for individualized, self-paced learning."
Photograph of a student using the PLATO IV terminal to perform lesson materials. Caption reads: "Complicated processes, structures and operations are displayed in animated drawings as well as text and numbers with Control Data PLATO, the computer-based education system offered by Control Data Corporation. Instructors and students use the same terminals to enter and retrieve lesson materials."
