The Detroit Printing Co-Op was founded by Freddy Perlman, a prolific and widely respected political writer and thinker. Perlman and his wife Lorraine printed all the books published by their press, Black & Red, at the co-op from 1970-1980. Other groups made use of the printing co-op including high school students, the publishers of Radical America, members of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, and the editors of the poetry journal Riverrun.
