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Posts from the ‘Grand Rapids People’s History Project’ Category
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September 11, 2025
The late Black feminist and insurgent writer bell hooks gave a lecture at Fountain Street Church in 2006
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September 3, 2025
2004 lecture by Amy Goodman at Fountain Street Church: The US military occupation of Iraq and media coverage
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August 26, 2025
Civil Rights activist and entertainer Dick Gregory spoke at Fountain Street Church in 1969
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August 20, 2025
Civil Rights activist James Meredith spoke at Fountain Street Church in 1967
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July 2, 2025
100 years ago on July 4th, thousands of KKK members marched in a parade through Grand Rapids, with onlookers applauding them
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June 15, 2025
The making of a People’s History of the LGBTQ community in Grand Rapids documentary film
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May 8, 2025
What are we really celebrating on the 175th Anniversary of Grand Rapids?
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May 4, 2025
1967 archival speech from Stokely Carmichael at Fountain Street Church
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March 26, 2025
19th anniversary for the largest immigrant justice march in Grand Rapids
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March 10, 2025
Viva Flaherty – Radical Socialist who documented the furniture workers strike and resisted WWI in Grand Rapids
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