Elizabeth Clemens, author of The Works Progress Administration in Detroit, will discuss the agency, which was created to put the unemployed to work, and how they built schools and libraries, provided clothing and shelter, and enriched the lives of Detroiters through literacy, health, and educational programs. It also brought art, theater and music to the masses through groundbreaking cultural programs, helping to create the infrastructure that enabled Detroit to develop into the “Arsenal of Democracy” and eventually, into one of America’s greatest cities.

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Join Armando Delicato, author of Detroit’s Corktown, as he discusses why the community is known as the sentimental heart of the Irish American community of metropolitan Detroit, and how the Irish Plaza on Sixth Street honors the city’s Irish pioneers and their 600,000 descendents living in the region. Corktown is a diverse and proud community of African Americans, Hispanics, working class people of various national origins and a growing population of young urban pioneers.

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Join featured scholar Dr. Thomas Killion, archaeologist from Wayne State University, as he discusses the exciting details on the award-winning dig at the Workers Row House site in Corktown and share with us the significance of the artifacts uncovered in the process.

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