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Poet Nikki Giovanni, Keynote Speaker At U of M's 1999 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture, January 1999 Photographer: Robert Chase

Poet Nikki Giovanni, Keynote Speaker At U of M's 1999 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture, January 1999 image
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1999
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Ann Arbor News, January 19, 1999
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Poet Nikki Giovanni greets well-wishers Monday after giving the 1999 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture at Hill Auditorium at the University of Michigan. Her speech was followed by a march and a rally.
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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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