Mattie Dorsey Speaks at Ypsilanti City Council Meeting About Urban Renewal, 1969
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1969
Mattie Dorsey Waits to Speak at Ypsilanti City Council Meeting About Urban Renewal, 1969
Year:
1969
Grayce (Johnson) Blake (1930-1971)
Grayce Evelyn Blake was born on New Year's Eve, December 31, 1930 in Detroit, Michigan to Rev. David A. Blake Sr. and Grace Rogers Blake. She attended Jones School and Ann Arbor High School, where her 1948 senior yearbook noted her nickname as simply "Blake". Grayce Blake was an active member of the Bethel AME Church choir, following in the footsteps of her mother, as well as several high school singing groups. Following graduation, she left for Washington D.C. and became a student at Howard University.
No Renewal Committee Satisfied
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Renewal Committee Says Lemble Group Is 'Out Of Step'
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Anti-Urban Renewal Committee Critical Of Proposal's Ideology
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Legacies Project Oral History: Opal Simmons
Opal Simmons was born in 1931 in Detroit. After graduating from Eastern High School, she attended Fisk University and Wayne State University. She lived in New York for a few years as a young woman and recalls attending dances at the Savoy. She volunteered as a letter reader for the American Red Cross during World War II. During her working years in Detroit, she was secretary to the deputy mayor in the Coleman A. Young administration. Richard Simmons Jr. became her second husband. Later in life, she attended seminary and became a minister.
Opal Simmons was interviewed in partnership with the Museum of African American History of Detroit and Y Arts Detroit in 2010 as part of the Legacies Project.
Will Explain Federal Funds Application
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Trustees Against Jones School Sale
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Homeowners' Parley Speaker Announced
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