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Ruth Zweifler Reflects On Twenty Years as a Student Advocate, December 1995 Photographer: Aleks Bienkowska

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1995
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Ann Arbor News, December 19, 1995
Caption:
Ruth Zweifler helped to establish the Student Advocacy Center of Michigan 20 years ago and, since then she has worked without collecting a paycheck.
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Lea Vaughn, Ruth Zweifler, and Flora Burke at the Student Advocacy Center, August 1977 Photographer: Robert Chase

Lea Vaughn, Ruth Zweifler, and Flora Burke at the Student Advocacy Center, August 1977 image
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1977
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Ann Arbor News, August 26, 1977
Caption:
STUDENT ADVOCATES — SAC members gather in their small office in the Wesley Center for a research session. Lea Vaughn, left, is the group’s volunteer secretary and a third-year law student at the U-M. Ruth Zweifler, standing, is SAC’s co-chairwoman and also a volunteer. Flora Burke, at right, works as the center’s part-time program coordinator. All three have functioned as student advocates.
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There Went The Neighborhood - Studio Interview: Alma Wheeler Smith

Alma Wheeler Smith grew up in post-WWII Ann Arbor with two activist parents, Albert and Emma Wheeler. She recalls participating in picketing and demonstrations against segregation and redlining in Ann Arbor. She shares her perspective on her parents’ involvement in the decision to close Jones School.

This interview was filmed during the making of the documentary film There Went The Neighborhood: The Closing of Jones School, produced by the Ann Arbor District Library and 7 Cylinders Studio. More interviews are available in the There Went The Neighborhood Interview Archive.

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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.

'Suspension Gap' Raises New Concerns

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Ann Arbor News, July 6, 1997
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6
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July
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1997
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