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Model Cities Wants Junk Yard Action

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Day
4
Month
August
Year
1972
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Engelke Says Junk Yard Not Health Menace

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Day
17
Month
December
Year
1957
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Human Relations Commission Members Sworn In, July 1957

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Year:
1957
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, July 17, 1957
Caption:
New Commission Meets: Members of the new City Human Relations Commission are shown into office last night by City Clerk Fred J. Looker. In front (left to right) are Mrs. Arthur J. Carr, Mrs. Gerald Davenport, Councilman Richard Dennard and the Rev. Henry Lewis. In back (left to right) are George E. Wedemeyer, Richard J. Mann, State Rep. George W. Sallade and Dr. Albert H. Wheeler. Members James A. Lewis and Dr. Herman Jacobs could not be present last night.
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AACHM Oral History: Thekla Mitchell

Thekla Mitchell

Thekla Mitchell: Thekla White was born in 1921 in Newport, Arkansas, the youngest of nine siblings. At age 22, she traveled to Ann Arbor to visit her sister. After getting a job at Cunningham’s Drug Store, she decided to stay. She worked at the University of Michigan Hospital as a nurses’ aid and laboratory assistant in the Pathology Department for 24 years. Known as “Dimples” to friends and family, Mrs. Mitchell was active in community organizations including the Ann Arbor Civic Club and the Order of the Eastern Stars.

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AACHM Oral History: Audrey Monagan

Audrey Monagan was born in Ann Arbor in 1941, and grew up in a close-knit, predominantly black neighborhood on North Fifth Ave. She remembers attending Bethel AME Church with her grandparents, spending time at the Dunbar Community Center, and helping raise her younger siblings. She attended Jones School and Pioneer High School before working for General Motors, where she was an inspector for eighteen years. Mrs. Monagan has been married to her second husband, Philip, for 48 years.

First Democratic May Since 1931

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2
Month
April
Year
1957
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Community Service Award Winners, February 15, 1977 Photographer: Cecil Lockard

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Year:
1977
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 15, 1977
Caption:
Also receiving awards were (from the left): Dr. Theodore Meadows, Mrs. Georgia Frazier, Sidney Moore, Mrs. Sidney Moore and Tyrone Scott Baylis. Awardee Richard Dennard was unable to attend the Sunday reception.

Council OK's Eldersveld Appointees

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Day
9
Month
July
Year
1957
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