Food, Cheer, Hope Served For Holiday

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Groups Serving Turkey Dinners To Needy

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Rose Martin and Staff Prepare Thanksgiving Dinner At Peace Neighborhood Center, November 1991

Ann Arbor News, November 29, 1991
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ROSE FEEDS THE HUNGRY: Rose Martin, director of the Peace Neighborhood Center, and Latoria Edwards stand ready with aprons in place and smiles on their faces as they offered hot home-cooked Thanksgiving dinners to those in need Thursday. The Peace Neighborhood Center, Cottage Inn Pizza and the Salvation Army were among the groups offering hot meals this Thanksgiving.
Staff Prepares Thanksgiving Dinner At Peace Neighborhood Center, November 1991

Rose Martin Greets Thanksgiving Guests At Peace Neighborhood Center, November 1991

Philanthropists Gerald and Jada Edwards, February 2000

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Couple Builds Church, Center in Namibia

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AACHM Oral History: Gerald Edwards
Sun, 07/21/2019 - 3:32pm
Gerald Edwards was born in 1950 in Cleveland, Ohio. He remembers being discriminated against as one of three African American students at his elementary school in the aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education. At Heidelberg College, he participated in sit-ins to help found a Black Student Union House. After beginning his career in automotive manufacturing with Ford Motor Company, Mr. Edwards started his own business, Engineered Plastic Products, in 1987. He and his wife Jada also started the Edwards Foundation, which was dedicated to philanthropy in Namibia.
AACHM Oral History: Johnny Barfield
Sun, 09/28/2014 - 12:54pm
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Johnny W. Barfield was born February 8, 1927, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. As a child he sold soap house to house and, after tenth grade, joined the U.S. Army where he served in France and Germany. After leaving the Army in 1947, Mr. Barfield became a wall washer for the University of Michigan, where hard work, entrepreneurship, and innovation helped him build the largest cleaning business in Ann Arbor. Mr. Barfield is widely recognized for his philanthropic work and support of the African American and business communities.
Gerritt Smith's Donation

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