The People’s Bicentennial
Wed Oct 28, 9am
Radical history exhibit
This event is in the past.It took place on July 4, 2026 at Hatcher Graduate Library.
Burns Park, Ann Arbor
📜Ask staff about the Labadie Collection's anarchist roots
🎓Combine with wandering the stunning Hatcher stacks
🗓️Open late Monday through Thursday
The People's Bicentennial Commission had a different vision for America's 200th birthday. This free exhibit pulls original protest artifacts from U-M's Labadie Collection, showing how everyday organizers pushed back against the official, corporate-sponsored celebration in 1976.
free admission
social protest history
political activism artifacts
alternative patriotism
They recommend it:
Burns Park, Ann Arbor
📜Ask staff about the Labadie Collection's anarchist roots
🎓Combine with wandering the stunning Hatcher stacks
🗓️Open late Monday through Thursday
The People's Bicentennial Commission had a different vision for America's 200th birthday. This free exhibit pulls original protest artifacts from U-M's Labadie Collection, showing how everyday organizers pushed back against the official, corporate-sponsored celebration in 1976.
free admission
social protest history
political activism artifacts
alternative patriotism
They recommend it:
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- free admission
- social protest history
- political activism artifacts
- alternative patriotism
- Hatcher Graduate Library
- Burns Park
- Ann Arbor
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