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Black Action Movement Sit-In At U-M Administration Building, February 18, 1975 Photographer: Cecil Lockard

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1975
Black United Front Students Fill U-M Administration Building, February 18, 1975 Photographer: Cecil Lockard

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1975
Spectators Watch Black Action Movement Sit-In Unfold At U-M Administration Building, February 18, 1975 Photographer: Cecil Lockard

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1975
Black Action Movement Sit-In Underway at U-M Administration Building, February 18, 1975 Photographer: Cecil Lockard

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1975
Black United Front Students Read the Michigan Daily During Sit-In, February 18, 1975 Photographer: Cecil Lockard

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1975
Black United Front Student Speaks During Sit-In at U-M Administration Building, February 18, 1975 Photographer: Cecil Lockard

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1975
Black United Front Students & Others, February 18, 1975 Photographer: Cecil Lockard

Year:
1975
AACHM Oral History: Patricia Horne McGee
Patricia Horne McGee was born in 1946 in Ypsilanti, where she attended Perry Elementary and Ypsilanti High School. She recalls the mutual support and accomplishments of many childhood friends and neighbors, and reflects on rising tensions between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. Horne McGee has two master's degrees from the University of Michigan and UCLA. She taught child development and social work for fifteen years at Ferris State College and Mercy College. After leaving academia, she worked for the Wayne County Intermediate School District and she was director of Head Start for Washtenaw County.
AACHM Oral History: Laurita Thomas
Laurita Thomas was born in 1950, and her family lived in southwest Detroit and Ontario, California. She attended the University of Michigan and pursued two master’s degrees from Wayne State University and Eastern Michigan University. Throughout her career, Thomas has pushed for better career opportunities for women and women of color. She worked at U-M for 47 years, eventually serving as Vice President for Human Resources. A survivor of domestic violence, she regularly shares her story and was president of the board of Safe House Center in Ann Arbor.