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The Community Leaning Post Celebrates Black History, May 1998 Photographer: Lon Horwedel

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1998
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, June 5, 1998
Caption:
Lucille Porter is director of the Community Leaning Post, sponsor of the African American Downtown Festival. She's in the organization's Room of History, which showcases many of the memories the festival will celebrate Saturday.
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There Went The Neighborhood - Studio Interview: Debby Mitchell Covington

Debby Mitchell Covington grew up in Ann Arbor near Summit Park (now Wheeler Park), and she attended Jones School in kindergarten and first grade. In 1965 when Jones School closed, she was bused to Dicken Elementary and she recalls feeling isolated in the majority-white school. 

This interview was filmed during the making of the documentary film There Went The Neighborhood: The Closing of Jones School, produced by the Ann Arbor District Library and 7 Cylinders Studio. More interviews are available in the There Went The Neighborhood Interview Archive.

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There Went The Neighborhood - State Theatre Interview: Diana McKnight-Morton

Diana McKnight-Morton was interviewed after a preliminary screening of the documentary film There Went The Neighborhood: The Closing of Jones School at the State Theatre on April 16, 2023. She describes her father’s business, DeLong’s Bar-B-Q, which operated across from the farmers’ market.

More interviews are available in the There Went The Neighborhood Interview Archive.

Freedom Rally March with John Lewis, August 26, 1963

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Year:
1963
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, August 27, 1963
Caption:
MARCHING FOR FREEDOM: Some of the 300 persons who marched from City Hall last night to the First Methodist Church to participate in the Freedom Rally are shown moving along Huron St. at the Division St. intersection. Some of the marchers carried posters which they used in picketing City Hall prior to the march. The rally was sponsored by the University Friends of the Student Non-Violent Co-Ordinating Committee
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