Sitting Down to Take a Stand
On the night of December 30, 1936, workers at one of the General Motors automobile assembly plants in Flint, Michigan, locked the doors from the inside and guarded the windows.
The Flint Sit-Down Strike had begun.
For the next forty-four…
Highway Lighthouses
We are all acquainted with the yellow warning signs along Michigan's roads alerting us to dangerous intersections, sharp curves, steep grades and other driving hazards. But few people are familiar with the devices that preceded these modern…