The Detroit Geographic Expedition was first mounted by the Society for Human Exploration. The goal was to join academic geographers with "folk geographers" and members of the African American community to use geography to create "oughtness maps" - maps of how things are and maps of how things ought to be. The Expedition's main concern was using geography for social justice and, specifically in Detroit, addressing racial injustice. As Dr. William Bunge wrote in the expedition's first publication, Field Notes I, "After all, it is not the function of geographers to merely map the earth, but to change it."
Principal players in the Detroit Geographic Expedition included Dr. Bunge and Gwendolyn Warren, an 18-year-old black female community leader and high school push out who was the former president of the Infernos, a teen club in Detroit's Fitzgerald neighborhood. Warren had previously led numerous community actions including school walk-outs, strikes and protests. Dr. Bunge was an academic geographer of note, having written a well-respected text in the early 60's entitled "Theoretical Geography". However Dr. Bunge's participation in the Civil Rights movement and his unorthodox teaching procedures led to his dismissal from Wayne State University where he was included in the faculty.
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