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Posts from the ‘Grand Rapids People’s History Project’ Category

5August 26, 2025Civil Rights activist and entertainer Dick Gregory spoke at Fountain Street Church in 1969

6August 20, 2025Civil Rights activist James Meredith spoke at Fountain Street Church in 1967

0July 2, 2025100 years ago on July 4th, thousands of KKK members marched in a parade through Grand Rapids, with onlookers applauding them

0June 15, 2025The making of a People’s History of the LGBTQ community in Grand Rapids documentary film

3May 8, 2025What are we really celebrating on the 175th Anniversary of Grand Rapids?

7May 4, 20251967 archival speech from Stokely Carmichael at Fountain Street Church

1March 26, 202519th anniversary for the largest immigrant justice march in Grand Rapids

0March 10, 2025Viva Flaherty – Radical Socialist who documented the furniture workers strike and resisted WWI in Grand Rapids

1March 7, 2025Voltairine De Cleyre: Feminist and Anarchist writer lived in Grand Rapids in the 1880s

0January 27, 2025We need faith communities, other institutions and families to commit to being a sanctuary for those are are being threatened by mass deportation in Kent County