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There Went The Neighborhood - Audio Interview: Paula Miller

Sat, 08/10/2024 - 2:18am

Paula Miller, the youngest of the Dixon siblings, attended Jones School in first and second grade. When Jones School closed in 1965, she was bused to Pittsfield Elementary School, where she felt alienated from her fellow classmates. She went on to attend Spelman College and became a teacher.

More interviews are available in the There Went The Neighborhood Interview Archive.

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There Went The Neighborhood - Studio Interview: Omer Jean (Dixon) Winborn

Wed, 08/07/2024 - 1:51pm

Omer Jean (Dixon) Winborn attended Jones School from kindergarten to sixth grade, from 1955 to 1962. She recalls having many strong Black role models, including her parents William and Minnie Dixon, the Jones School custodian Mr. Perry, her pastor Rev. Carpenter, and U-M professor Albert H. Wheeler.

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.

'A Definite Link' to Disappearance

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Ann Arbor News, May 21, 1975

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May

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1975

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Fred Bentz and Eddie Owens Demonstrate Bicycle Safety, September 1963 Photographer: Doug Fulton

Fred Bentz and Eddie Owens Demonstrate Bicycle Safety, September 1963 image

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1963

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Ann Arbor News, September 12, 1963
Caption:
'LITE A BIKE': VFW Graf-O'Hara Post 423, Ladies Auxiliary and Dads of Foreign Service Veterans 151 are sponsoring Lite A Bike--Save A Life Day from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday at the Fifth Ave. City Parking Lot. Reflector tapes will be attached to all bikes brought into the lot. Above, Fred Bentz, project chairman, shows how the stickers will be applied to the bike as Bonnie Jean Flanders, fourth grader at Haisley Elementary School; Steven Garris, seventh grader at Slauson Junior High School, and Patrolman Eddie Owens of the Ann Arbor Police Youth Bureau look on.