Blacks Want Counselor Fired
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1,200 Leave Pioneer Classes
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Constructing Ann Arbor High School's New Building, November 1953
Year:
1953
Ann Arbor News, November 11, 1953
Caption:
NEW HIGH SCHOOL FOOTINGS: Work on footings and grading of the new Ann Arbor High School site on Stadium Blvd., is essentially finished with just clean-up work remaining, school officials report. Henry W. deKoning Construction Co. was contractor on the preliminary work. Concrete in foreground will form floor of a running track in the high school gymnasium wing. Footings for a shop and classroom wing extending south are visible in background. Other classrooms and school offices will be in section connecting the gymnasium and auditorium section with the shop wing.
Club Offers Free Shows
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Methodist pastor coming home to Ann Arbor
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Lincoln Murphy & Harold Settels Paint And Repair A Classroom In Pioneer High In Preparation For The Upcoming School Year, August 1970 Photographer: Cecil Lockard
Year:
1970
Ann Arbor News, August 12, 1970
Caption:
Doing some annual painting and repair work during the summer at Pioneer High School recently were Lincoln Murphy (on ladder) and Harold Settels. Many of the Ann Arbor School District's 30 schools get painted up and fixed up during the summer in preparation for the fall "invasion" of students. Nearly 21,000 pupils are expected to enroll this fall in the Ann Arbor Public Schools.
Back-To-School Fashions Signal 'Back-To-Cool' Look
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Joan Gibson, a junior at Pioneer High School, models back-to-school fashion, September 1969 Photographer: Cecil Lockard
Year:
1969
Ann Arbor News, September 7, 1969
Caption:
Experts predict that the Afro look will be around for a long time. Joan Gibson, right, a junior at Pioneer High School and daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Lee Jones of Fair Street, models an imported African print handmade by her sister, Janet.
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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: Audrey Monagan
Audrey Monagan was born in Ann Arbor in 1941, and grew up in a close-knit, predominantly black neighborhood on North Fifth Ave. She remembers attending Bethel AME Church with her grandparents, spending time at the Dunbar Community Center, and helping raise her younger siblings. She attended Jones School and Pioneer High School before working for General Motors, where she was an inspector for eighteen years. Mrs. Monagan has been married to her second husband, Philip, for 48 years.