Intergenerational Dialogue on the Great Migration: Highlights

Sat, 10/01/2022 - 3:32pm

Intergenerational Dialogue on the Great Migration: Alvesta Smith

Sat, 10/01/2022 - 3:24pm

Intergenerational Dialogue on the Great Migration: Betty Thomas

Sat, 10/01/2022 - 3:23pm

Intergenerational Dialogue on the Great Migration: Delores Washington

Sat, 10/01/2022 - 3:22pm

Intergenerational Dialogue on the Great Migration: Savannah Williams

Sat, 10/01/2022 - 3:20pm

Intergenerational Dialogue on the Great Migration: Johnnie M. Redding

Sat, 10/01/2022 - 3:19pm

Intergenerational Dialogue on the Great Migration: Jerene Calhoun

Sat, 10/01/2022 - 3:18pm

Intergenerational Dialogue on the Great Migration: Janet Virginia (Newton) Haynes

Sat, 10/01/2022 - 3:15pm

Intergenerational Dialogue on the Great Migration: Roger Doster

Sat, 10/01/2022 - 3:11pm

AACHM Oral History: Johnnie Mae Seeley

Fri, 09/20/2013 - 4:19pm

Please take a moment to take our Living Oral History Survey and let us know what you learned.

Johnnie Mae Jackson Seeley was raised in Sarepta, Louisiana and moved to Ann Arbor with her husband Howard M. Seeley in 1954. She joined the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Ann Arbor where she was later crowned a Deaconess, and soon she became known for her culinary skills and hospitality, which led to some of the community's largest gatherings, first at her farm on the outside of Ann Arbor and later on Beakes St. For years her garden provided food for Sunday communal meals and for the Human Service Project which donated food to homeless shelters.