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Children at Metropolitan Memorial Baptist Church, January 1996 Photographer: Linda Wan

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Year:
1996

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Child Gives Offering at Metropolitan Memorial Baptist Church, January 1996 Photographer: Linda Wan

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Year:
1996

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Pianist at Metropolitan Memorial Baptist Church, January 1996 Photographer: Linda Wan

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Year:
1996

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Jubilee Day at Metropolitan Memorial Baptist Church, January 1996 Photographer: Linda Wan

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Year:
1996

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 2, 1996
Caption:
Lois Richardson rises in celebration during the eighth annual Jubilee Day ceremony Monday at Metropolitan Memorial Baptist Church in Ypsilanti. The day commemorates the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.

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They Had A Good Time

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Ann Arbor Argus-Democrat, August 8, 1902

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Month

August

Year

1902

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AACHM Oral History: Evelyn Payne

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Evelyn Payne was born on November 3, 1924, and although she was an only child, she went on to have 8 children, numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great grandchildren. Evelyn grew up in Tennessee where she remembers segregation and walking 10 miles to school. In 1945, at 20 years of age, she moved to Ann Arbor where she is proud to have raised all her children while working as a nursing assistant - for 25 years at St. Joseph Mercy and 16 years at the University of Michigan.