History of the Inter-Cooperative Council of Ann Arbor

Items

• Eleanor Roosevelt to Lorena Hickok, April 19, 1945
  This letter was written by Eleanor Roosevelt to Lorena Hickok. The correspondence took place just days after the death of President FDR, Eleanor's husband. In the letter, she grieves for him and speaks about her idea of what life will be like moving forward without him.
• Letter to a G.I.
  This letter from WWII veteran Brian Keith to his lover and fellow soldier Dave was published in the September 1961 issue of ONE Magazine. Keith reminisces about their relationship, but the tone of the letter is bittersweet because the couple were not able to stay together. It is implied that Dave died during the war, and Keith has been missing him ever since.
• Max Gundy and Jack Bloch
  Black and white photograph, Jack Bloch (left) and Max Gundy (right) pose with their car outside their new house in Eastchester, New York.
• Jack Bloch WWII Postcard
  This photograph of Jack Bloch was sent to his partner Max Gundy postcard-style, mounted in a paper frame that has been inscribed with a note. The photograph is black and white, and depicts Jack Bloch in his army uniform sitting next to a small alligator with palm trees and a body of water in the background.
• “Arrabal Supports Ann Arbor Gays”
  Handmade poster, cardboard backing, 10”x12”
• “Demonstrate Against ‘Windows’”
  Flyer announcing demonstration against homophobic movie “Windows” at Michigan Union
• “Rally, 12 noon, Thursday April 14th, Diag”
  Flyer announcing rally on Diag
• “Imagine the University as WCBN’s General Manager...”
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• “Administration Control: Get It Out of Your Life!”
  Flyer announcing rally against discriminative administration
• “Act Up! Protest a Bigoted Court!”
  Flyer announcing protest next to Michigan Union
• “Harvard The Non-Homophobic Michigan of the East”
  Flyer announcing protest of UM Regents’ anti-gay definition of family
• “Speak Up against Police Harassment of Gay People!”
  Flyer announcing meeting at City Hall to speak with police about harassment
• Eleanor Roosevelt to Lorena Hickok, September 12, 1943
  In this letter, Eleanor Roosevelt complains to Lorena Hickok about her time in Australia. She is there to provide aid to the Australian troops during the war (WWII).
• Emily Blackwell Portrait
  "Head and shoulders portrait of Emily Blackwell at the time of her graduation from the first class of the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary. Reproduction of a photograph from 1870. Inscription: Verso of mount: Aunt Emily, photographed in New York, in 1870, when she was 44 years old, at the time of the graduation of the first class from the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary."
• Elizabeth Cushier to Emily Blackwell, September 14th
  Letter from Dr. Elizabeth Cushier to her partner, Dr. Emily Blackwell. Dr. Cushier discusses several patients she has seen, her struggles with home improvement work being done on their house, and expresses her excitement that her "own dear doctor" will soon be home.
• ACT-UP Flyer
  Flyer announcing protest of UM Regent Deane Baker
• “Kiss In” Photograph
  Protesters hold up a sign that reads “Kissing does not kill. Homophobia does.”
• “Demonstration sponsored by ACT-UP, July 31, 1990”
  Protester holds “Recall Baker” sign, referencing UM Regent Deane Baker.
• “Gay Rights Protest”
  LGBTQ protestors wear paper bags over their heads to protect identities.
• “Gay Rights Protest”
  “GAY RIGHTS PROTEST: Student protestors covered their heads with grocery bags Friday, as they marched around campus to demonstrate for gay rights. Their hour-long protest was silent, but slogans on their bags proclaimed, ‘Let me out of the closet.’ The 12-member group briefly occupied the office of U-M President Harold T. Shapiro. Shapiro was out of town, but the protestors left a message: ‘We won't be silent anymore and we will be back.’ For more than a year, gay men and lesbians on campus have been pressuring U-M for a policy to prohibit discrimination against homosexuals” (Caption).