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AACHM Oral History: Alice Brennan-Key

Alice Brennan-KeyAlice Brennan-Key was born in Ann Arbor in 1953. Her parents met in Florida after her father immigrated from the Bahamas, and they moved to Ann Arbor in the 1940s. Brennan-Key grew up on Gott Street, next door to her current residence. She has seen the neighborhood change over the years due to gentrification. She went to Michigan State University as an undergraduate and received her master’s in social work from the University of Michigan. She spent most of her career working with developmentally disabled and mentally ill residents of Washtenaw County. She raised her daughter Khyla in Ann Arbor.

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AACHM Oral History: Dolores and James Turner

Dolores TurnerDolores Preston Turner was born in Ann Arbor in the early 1940s, and her family lived in a small historically Black neighborhood on Woodlawn Avenue. She graduated from Ann Arbor High School, where she met her future husband, James Turner. She remembers moving into their first apartment in Pittsfield Village as a result of fair housing protests in Ann Arbor in the 1960s. Turner has two master’s degrees and she taught English at Huron High School for 30 years. Dolores and James celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in September 2021.

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Ralph F. Pelz

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Ann Arbor News, January 14, 1955
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14
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January
Year
1955
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Washtenaw Dairy Ice Cream Counter, 1980 Photographer: Susan Wineberg

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1980
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Jim Smith, Jr. learns to mount a scoop of ice cream from his dad, February 3, 1962 Photographer: Duane Scheel

Jim Smith, Jr. learns to mount a scoop of ice cream from his dad, February 3, 1962 image
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1962
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Ann Arbor News, February 3, 1962
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Doing What Daddy Does: Jim Smith of 2726 Hampshire Rd., a long-time employee of a local dairy stores, gives an expert ice cream eater, his son, Jim, jr., a lesson in the fine art of mounting a scoop of ice cream on a cone. The younger Smith is nine and a fourth grader at John Allen School.
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