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AACHM Oral History: Dolores and James Turner

Wed, 09/22/2021 - 11:05am

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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Fitness For The Soul

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Ann Arbor News, October 23, 1996
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On to Chicago

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Ann Arbor News, May 15, 1988
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Robert F. Kennedy With Other Democratic Politicians At Eastern Michigan University, October 29, 1966

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Ann Arbor News, October 31, 1966
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Hoping to receive some fallout from the "Kennedy magic" were a troupe of Democratic candidates that flanked Sen. Robert F. Kennedy on his visit to Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti on Saturday. The New York senator spoke to an ecstatic audience and was flanked (above) by U. S. House of Representatives Second District incumbent, Weston E. Vivian (left); party gubernatorial nominee, Zolton A. Ferency; an unidentified photographer on the right. Kennedy made a day-long trip through three congressional "swing" districts.
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