Michigan Humanities Council Heritage Tracking Advancement: 100 Years of Progress?, is a ground-breaking project to trace the progress and challenges of Michigan’s Black population from 1865 to the present. This pioneering effort will interview and collect oral testimonies from descendants whose forbearers participated in historic events of 1915 including the “Michigan Manual of Freedmen’s Progress” a seminal document on the civic life of African Americans in employment, home ownership and business fifty years after passage of the 13th Amendment.