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Dunbar Center Will Honor Douglas Williams Tomorrow

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Ann Arbor News, February 2, 1957

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February

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1957

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Differing Views Of Negroes Underlie Center Controversy

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Ann Arbor News, February 13, 1962

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February

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1962

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Dunbar Sponsors Camping Period

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Ann Arbor News, July 27, 1946

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July

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1946

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Dunbar Community Center Trio Popular at Area Events, September 1954

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1954

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Ann Arbor News, September 29, 1954
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Something To Sing About: The Dunbar Community Center trio meets regularly at the center for informal singing about the piano. The trio also appears before local groups. It is one of several interest groups on the center's roster. Singers (left to right) are Audrey Sleet, Juanita Anderson and Delores Evans. Accompanying them at the piano is Mrs. Virginia Ellis, Center program director.

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AACHM Oral History: Shirley Beckley

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Shirley Beckley was born on July 30, 1942. She was raised by her mother on Wall St. and attended Jones School, Mack School, and Bach Schools in Ann Arbor. Shirley started as a housing manager for the Ann Arbor Housing Commission, later becoming housing director in Lansing and Muskegon. She reminisces about working at Jacobson’s, dances at the Dunbar Center, businesses on Fourth Avenue and Ann Streets, and tense racial incidents in the schools. Shirley continues to be deeply involved in social justice issues at the local level.