Getting a kick out of teaching
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Lee makes Olympic team
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Does he have what it takes to win gold?
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Ann Arbor man to coach U.S. Taekwondo team
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Ann Arbor's Lee prepares for Taekwondo challenge
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Martial Arts Master Is Flying High
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Griffith Korean Karate Tae Kwon Do Training Hall, February 1991 Photographer: Colleen Fitzgerald
Year:
1991
Tai Chi at the Cube, 1978 Photographer: RJ Godin
Year:
1978
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Legacies Project Oral History: Larry Millben
Lt. Col. Larry Millben was born in 1936 in Detroit. His parents immigrated from Chatham and Windsor, Canada. Fascinated by airplanes from an early age, he was one of only a few Black students to attend Aero Mechanics High School (now Davis Aerospace Technical High School) in Detroit in the early 1950s. Millben went on to become an aircraft mechanic, a military avionics officer, and base commander of Selfridge Air National Guard Base. Prior to his military career, he also worked in research and development in the private sector. He married his wife Jeannie in 1959, and they have three children.
Larry Millben was interviewed in partnership with the Museum of African American History of Detroit and Y Arts Detroit
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.