Legacies Project Oral History: Benita Kaimowitz
Benita Kaimowitz was born in 1935 and grew up in Pascagoula, Mississippi, where her father ran a general store. When she was 11, her family moved to Nashville, Tennessee. After graduating from college at the University of Hawaii, she got her master’s at Sarah Lawrence College. Kaimowitz helped register voters in Louisiana as a volunteer for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). She was a teacher and a longtime employee of Borders Bookstore in Ann Arbor. She and her first husband Gabe lived in a collective house for over two decades.
Benita Kaimowitz was interviewed by students from Skyline High School in Ann Arbor as part of the Legacies Project.
Borders brothers, Louis (left) and Tom, checking inventory, Borders Bookstore, April 1976 Photographer: Larry E. Wright
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1976
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Borders brothers, Louis (left) and Tom, checking inventory, Borders Bookstore, April 1976 Photographer: Larry E. Wright
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1976
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Ann Arbor News, April 30, 1976
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The Borders brothers, Louis (left) and Tom, browse through a computerized inventory print-out of their 60,000 title stock. The system has proved so efficient they plan to offer it to customers of their new wholesale business.
Ann Arbor News, April 30, 1976
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The Borders brothers, Louis (left) and Tom, browse through a computerized inventory print-out of their 60,000 title stock. The system has proved so efficient they plan to offer it to customers of their new wholesale business.
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Bordering on change: Borders bookstore chain turns a page in its history but won't close the book on providing good reading
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October
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1992
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State Street, 1870s
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c.1870
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Local Bookstore Plans A Wholesale Service
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1976
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Bookstore To Expand Fourth Time
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11
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October
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1974
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