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WPA Workers Construct Curb & Gutter on Woodlawn Ave., September 1938 Photographer: Eck Stanger

WPA Workers Construct Curb & Gutter on Woodlawn Ave., September 1938 image
Year:
1938
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, September 2, 1938
Caption:
WPA AIDS CITY: Ann Arbor is building 19,000 feet of curb and gutter this year with WPA assistance. About 10,000 feet of the work has been completed. This photograph shows the WPA workers constructing curb and gutter on Woodlawn Ave. east of Packard St.
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AACHM Oral History: Dolores and James Turner

Dolores TurnerDolores Preston Turner was born in Ann Arbor in the early 1940s, and her family lived in a small historically Black neighborhood on Woodlawn Avenue. She graduated from Ann Arbor High School, where she met her future husband, James Turner. She remembers moving into their first apartment in Pittsfield Village as a result of fair housing protests in Ann Arbor in the 1960s. Turner has two master’s degrees and she taught English at Huron High School for 30 years. Dolores and James celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in September 2021.

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