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WMEAC Adopt-a-Stream Pictures Black and white pictures of WMEAC members, taken by other WMEAC members, participating in cleaning up a stream as a part of WMEAC's Adopt-a-Stream program.
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WMEAC 13 Steps to Cleaner Water Guide A guide created and provided by the West Michigan Environmental Advocacy Council on how to keep local waters in Michigan clean with community members' involvement in enacting these steps for themselves.
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WMEAC Adopt-a-Stream Program How-to Guide A guide created and enforced by the West Michigan Environmental Action Council on how to "adopt" a stream and the upkeep that is required in order to maintain an "adopted" stream.
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WMEAC Adopt-a-Stream Program Adopted Stream Examples A document of multiple examples written and provided by the West Michigan Environmental Advocacy Council of similar water cleaning projects and what it entails for them to keep streams clean and maintained. This document also outlines the positive effects of similar water cleaning programs to influence WMEAC members to "adopt" a stream of their own to clean and care for.
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WMEAC Adopt-a-Stream Program Pamphlet An educational pamphlet created and provided by the West Michigan Environmental Action Council on how to "adopt" a stream under their Adopt-a-Stream program. The pamphlet also outlines reasons on why to "adopt" a stream, information about the program and their goals, and a mail in portion on the back of the pamphlet that could be mailed in to receive more information about the program.
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WMEAC YIKES! Accomplishment List West Michigan Environmental Action Council (WMEAC) list of Young Idealistic Kids with Environmental Sensitivity (YIKES!) program accomplishments from 1989-1994.
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Kent District Library Braille and Talking Book Center Free to the public, the Kent District Library Talking Book and Braille Center (KDL, TBBC) serves Kent, Montcalm, and Iona counties surrounding Grand Rapids in Michigan. The KDL Talking Book Library serves the blind and visually impaired communities. Materials are available in multiple formats, including Braille and electronic Braille, audio, DVDs, and descriptive videos. KDL TBBC provides resources to accessibly request materials and use adaptive technologies such as text to electronic Braille converters, manual Braille typewriters, and various accessible computer softwares available to download, among many more services. The KDL TBBC is currently open on weekdays only, from 8am to 5pm.
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Braille and Talking Book Library The Braille and Talking Book Library is a Michigan State Service through the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity. The library operates through the United States Postal Service as well as digitally, supplying readers with braille e-readers, digital players, and supplemental cartridges loaded with requested material(s) to either be mailed or delivered to users digital devices.
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Middle Eastern and North African Studies Library Located on the third floor of the South Thayer Building at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor campus, the Middle Eastern and North African Studies library is also a reading room and manuscripts library that is only part of the Middle East Studies collection across various locations on campus. This library is especially targeted to graduate students of University of Michigan, especially those in the Department Middle Eastern Studies, but open to any researchers interested in visiting.
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Russell J. Ebeid Library & Resource Center Housed within the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, the Russel J. Ebeid Library & Resource Center is open to the public and includes an array of resources for the public, including a cookbook collection and a graphic novel collection. This library and resource center is meant to enrich the museum with supplmental collections and resources, and even includes archival finding aids for many of the Arab American history collections it includes. Further, there are librarians that can be approached or contacted with questions about the center.
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Western Michigan University LGBT Community Library The lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender student services on Western Michigan University's campus in Kalamazoo, Michigan is both a library and resource center for students. This library is also a space to go to for information on on- and off-campus housing, campus policies, academic resources, counseling help, ally guides, and name change support. It also acts as a lounge for assorted media and entertainment and LGBT-related news materials. This space is open to everyone, especially LGBT-identifying students and can be found in the LGBT student services office space in the Adriam Trimpe Multicultural Center on 2466 Ring Road S, Kalamazoo, MI 49006 (main campus's address is 1903 W Michigan Ave, Kalamazoo, MI). Materials can be checked out with an appropriate student ID, or a "bronco card." Non-students and non-faculty are also welcome to visit during open visiting hours, which are 9am - 5pm Monday through Friday.
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Michigan. (with) Northwest part of Michigan This early map of Michigan post-statehood shows the aftermath of the Toledo War.
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A Map of the British and French dominions in North America This map, created in 1755 by John Mitchell, was widely used as the basis for drawing new state boundaries until the first half of the 19th century. It was also the basis for the boundary dispute between Ohio and Michigan because the locations of Toledo and the mouth of the Maumee River were inaccurate.
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International Underground Railroad Memorial International Underground Railroad Memorial at Hart Plaza in Detroit, created by African American artist Ed Dwight, and featuring George DeBaptiste directing the thousands of freedom-seekers who sought refuge in Canada
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Adam Crosswhite Black and white photograph of Adam Crosswhite
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Starkweather Farm Photograph of Starkweather Farm
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Treaty of Saginaw Also known as the Treaty with the Chippewa, it was an agreement between the United States and the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi tribes. Signed September 24 1819, in Sagninwa Michigan. The tribes ceded six million acres of land which encompassed much of the central and eastern lower peninsula of Michigan. Signed by Lewis Cass, territorial governor of Michigan. The treaty promised that the US government would pay $1000 every year forever to the tribes and hunting and fishing rights on the land. The US government also promised blacksmiths and tools for farming. Additionally Several smaller tracts of land for tribal use within the ceded territory was also stated in the treaty.
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Barnum and Bailey Circus: Flint, Mich
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Planned Parenthood Mid-Michigan Alliance Choice Matters Fall 2002
Newsletter from the Planned Parenthood Mid-Michigan Alliance with information about the state of reproductive rights in Michigan and ongoing initiatives. This article details the attempts that Michigan anti-choice activists and Republicans have made to defund organizations that provide reproductive healthcare like Planned Parenthood.
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Planned Parenthood Mid-Michigan Alliance Choice Matters Fall 2001 Newsletter from the Planned Parenthood Mid-Michigan Alliance with information about the state of reproductive rights in Michigan and ongoing initiatives. This article expresses outrage at comments made by Jerry Falwell after the attack on 9/11 insinuating that the attacks were punishment for abortions.
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Emma Nichols An enslaved woman who escaped from Virginia to Canada and stopped in Jackson along the way. She later married and returned to Jackson where she still has descendants.
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The Black Art Library The Black Art Library is self-described as a collection of books and other art history ephemera on Black visual art intended to be an educational resource to share within the Black community and beyond. The library navigates through pop-ups and digitally to bring awareness to and highlight the forgotten works and labor of visual cultural workers.
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Your Family Survival Plan Pamphlet providing information on safety measures to take at home in preparation of nuclear weapon fall out