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AACHM Oral History Excerpt: 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.

Winners Of The Ann Arbor Noon Optimist Club's Oratory Contest, April 1972

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1972
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, April 9, 1972
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Victor Turner, president of the Ann Arbor Noon Optimist Club, presents trophies and certificates to winners of the first oratory contest the local club has ever held for girls. All of the winners are Mack School sixth graders. The winners are (standing left to right): Carolyn Campbell, Donna Hunter and Monita Thompson. Sitting (left to right) are: first place winner Jackie Jacobs and Brenda Cumby.
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Angell Student Move Approved

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Ann Arbor News, September 23, 1976
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23
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September
Year
1976
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Dennis Jones Presents The Mack School Halloween Pumpkin Display, October 1952

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1952
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Ann Arbor News, October 30, 1952
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This array of carved and decorated pumpkins at Mack School, to be judged and awarded merchant-donated prizes as part of the Junior Chamber of Commerce's Halloween program, make up a spooky assortment. All school children have been invited to participate in the pumpkin contest and the parade and party Friday evening at the Municipal Carport. Inspecting some of the entries are Marilyn Nelson, sixth grade; Pamela Betty Rogers, kindergarten; and Dennis Jones, second grade. The parade from the high school to the Carport begins at 6:45.
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AACHM Oral History: Dolores and James Turner

Dolores TurnerDolores Preston Turner was born in Ann Arbor in the early 1940s, and her family lived in a small historically Black neighborhood on Woodlawn Avenue. She graduated from Ann Arbor High School, where she met her future husband, James Turner. She remembers moving into their first apartment in Pittsfield Village as a result of fair housing protests in Ann Arbor in the 1960s. Turner has two master’s degrees and she taught English at Huron High School for 30 years. Dolores and James celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in September 2021.

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