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Scholarship Winners of the Black Employees of the Ann Arbor Public Schools (BEAAPS), June 1974 Photographer: Robert Chase

Scholarship Winners of the Black Employees of the Ann Arbor Public Schools (BEAAPS), June 1974 image
Year:
1974
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, June 8, 1974
Caption:
William Ratcliff, president of the Black Employees of the Ann Arbor Public Schools (BEAAPS), talks with BEAPPS scholarship winners: front row, Paulette Russell and Reginald Norfleet; second row, Phillip Rhodes, left, Reginald Jones, Peggy Wright and Deborah Beverly; back row, Beverly Davis, Roderick Jones and Marlys Thompson. Not pictured were Denise Pullen, LaCretia Smith and Mardi Campbell.
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Good Citizenship Award Nominees From Daughters Of The American Revolution, February 1940 Photographer: Attributed to Eck Stanger

Good Citizenship Award Nominees From Daughters Of The American Revolution, February 1940 image
Year:
1940
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 13, 1940
Caption:
D.A.R. GOOD CITIZENSHIP CANDIDATES: To compete with other Michigan senior high school girls for the place of the state representative in the Good Citizenship Pilgrimage to Washington, D. C., sponsored each spring by the Daughters of the American Revolution, the girls above have been nominated by five of the Washtenaw County high schools. The candidates to be entered by the Sarah Caswell Angell chapter of the D.A.R., are from left to right: Jeanette Clay of Saline High school; Jean Steptoe of Dexter HIgh school; Dilys John of Milan High school; Betty Coy of Manchester High school; and Margaret Feldkamp of Ann Arbor High school (Story on page 6).
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Frederica Shoenfield Awarded Scholarship

Frederica Shoenfield Awarded Scholarship image
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Ann Arbor News, May 26, 1943
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26
Month
May
Year
1943
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Dolores Preston Wins Scholarship

Dolores Preston Wins Scholarship image
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Ann Arbor News, May 31, 1960
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1
Month
February
Year
1957
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AACHM Oral History: Laurita Thomas

Laurita Thomas

Laurita Thomas was born in 1950, and her family lived in southwest Detroit and Ontario, California. She attended the University of Michigan and pursued two master’s degrees from Wayne State University and Eastern Michigan University. Throughout her career, Thomas has pushed for better career opportunities for women and women of color. She worked at U-M for 47 years, eventually serving as Vice President for Human Resources. A survivor of domestic violence, she regularly shares her story and was president of the board of Safe House Center in Ann Arbor.

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