Seniors Practice Macarena Dance at the Ann Arbor Community Center, April 1997 Photographer: Robert Chase
Year:
1997
Macarena Dance Brings Smiles to the Ann Arbor Community Center, April 1997 Photographer: Robert Chase
Year:
1997
Ann Arbor News, April 12, 1997
Caption:
Robert Wideman, Alice Jacobs, Art Jacobs and Walter Blackwell perfect their Macarena technique during a meeting of the Ann Arbor Community Center Senior Adult Club.
Walter Blackwell Leads a Macarena Dance at the Ann Arbor Community Center, April 1997 Photographer: Robert Chase
Year:
1997
Lucille Porter, Director of the Community Leaning Post, May 1998 Photographer: Lon Horwedel
Year:
1998
The Community Leaning Post Celebrates Black History, May 1998 Photographer: Lon Horwedel
Year:
1998
Ann Arbor News, June 5, 1998
Caption:
Lucille Porter is director of the Community Leaning Post, sponsor of the African American Downtown Festival. She's in the organization's Room of History, which showcases many of the memories the festival will celebrate Saturday.
Joseph Moore Studies Maya Angelou at the Community Leaning Post, March 1993 Photographer: Phil Rezek
Year:
1993
Lucille Porter and Joseph Moore at the Community Leaning Post, March 1993 Photographer: Phil Rezek
Year:
1993
Ann Arbor News, March 4, 1993
Caption:
Lucille Porter started the Community Leaning Post to help students such as 16-year-old Joseph Moore get help with schoolwork. CLP offers tutoring in its offices at 211 N. Fourth Ave. and in students' homes.
Students and Tutors at the Community Leaning Post, March 1993 Photographer: Phil Rezek
Year:
1993
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Black Foodways
In this video compiled from dozens of interviews from the Living Oral History Project and the There Went The Neighborhood Interview Archive, participants share their memories of food and food traditions in their families, including fishing on the Huron River, hosting Fourth of July barbecues, and even starting a restaurant.
The Living Oral History Project is a partnership between the African American Cultural & Historical Museum of Washtenaw County and the Ann Arbor District Library, providing a permanent home for 50+ interviews with Black community members collected over the past decade. The collection continues to grow with interviews added each year.
The There Went The Neighborhood Interview Archive contains 35 interviews that went into the research and making of a documentary film about the closing of Jones School, produced by the Ann Arbor District Library and 7 Cylinders Studio.
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There Went The Neighborhood: Old Neighborhood Walking Tour
This filmed walking tour was created during production of There Went The Neighborhood: The Closing of Jones School by the Ann Arbor District Library and 7 Cylinders Studio (7CS). Led by three former Jones School students–Roger Brown, Cheryl (Jewett) O’Neal, and Omer Jean (Dixon) Winborn–the tour describes changes that have taken place in the neighborhood surrounding the school over the past several decades. Key stops in order of appearance include the former Jones School, Ann Street Black Business District, Dunbar Center, Bethel AME Church, Wheeler Park, and Second Baptist Church.
The route (although filmed in a different order) was inspired by the Living Oral History Project’s Walking Tour of a Historically Black Neighborhood in Ann Arbor, which was created in partnership between the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County (AACHM) and the Ann Arbor District Library. Check out that tour to view these locations in person alongside historical photographs and interview excerpts!
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