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Ann Arborite Gets Award from AAUW

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23
Month
July
Year
1994
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Back-To-School Fashions Signal 'Back-To-Cool' Look

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7
Month
September
Year
1969
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AACHM Oral History: Walter Blackwell

Walter Blackwell was born in 1930 in Petersburg, Virginia. He shares memories of growing up there as well as in Mount Vernon, New York before serving in the army during the Korean War. He worked for 30 years at the Ann Arbor VA hospital, where he enjoyed helping fellow veterans. After experiencing discrimination in housing and employment, Mr. Blackwell fought for civil rights in Ann Arbor as a member of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and mentored black children in his neighborhood.

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AACHM Oral History: Gerald Edwards

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.

Jesse Ellis - Singing Lunchroom Monitor At Huron High School, May 1999 Photographer: Michael J. Sugrue

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1999
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Ann Arbor News, May 5, 1999
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Jesse Ellis, a retiree who works as a cafeteria monitor at Huron High School in Ann Arbor, sings 'Happy Birthday' to a student on a recent day. His singing started spontaneously for a single student, then became a tradition students now expect.