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Legacies Project Oral History: Ruth Zweifler

Ruth Zweifler was born 1929 in Palisades, New Jersey. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College, and converted from Judaism to Quakerism. Since the 1960s, she has been active in Civil Rights, anti-war, and anti-Zionist protests, including a sit-in at Ann Arbor City Hall protesting residential segregation. In 1975, Zweifler co-founded the Student Advocacy Center of Michigan, and she was Executive Director for nearly 30 years.

Ruth Zweifler was interviewed by students from Skyline High School in Ann Arbor in 2018 as part of the Legacies Project.

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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.

U-M President Harold Shapiro & Other Administrators Listen To Black Action Movement III Members, March 21, 1987 Photographer: Tom Marks

U-M President Harold Shapiro & Other Administrators Listen To Black Action Movement III Members, March 21, 1987 image
Year:
1987
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 21, 1987
Caption:
Leaders of the Black Action Movement III were impatient and angry with Presidents Shapiro's response to their demands. Above, protester Chuck Wynder (pointing) confronts Shapiro (second from left) and U-M Regent Paul Brown (right). At left, more than 200 BAM III supporters crowded into the Michigan Union meeting for an hour-long exchange.