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Sgt. Jess Ralph Dies In Hospital

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Ann Arbor News, November 2, 1957
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2
Month
November
Year
1957
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Michigan State Police Graves Decorated For Memorial Day In St. John's Cemetery, May 1959 Photographer: Doug Fulton

Michigan State Police Graves Decorated For Memorial Day In St. John's Cemetery, May 1959 image
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1959
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Ann Arbor News, May 30, 1959
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STATE POLICE GRAVES DECORATED: All graves of deceased Michigan State Police officers in the state were decorated today with individual Michigan flags. The traditional Memorial Day custom was carried out this morning in Ypsilanti by Sgt. John J. (Mickey) Mongiat, commander of the MSP detachment there, who placed state flags on the graves of two former officers. Here he pauses at the grave of Sgt. Jess B. Ralph, a retired former commander of the Ypsilanti detachment who died two years ago, while Trooper Earl H. Fink salutes.
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Legacies Project Oral History: Titus McClary

Titus W. McClary was born in 1937 and spent his childhood in Georgetown, South Carolina. After moving to Detroit, he attended Highland Park High School and worked at his uncle’s North End restaurant. During his time in the army in the early 1960s, he picketed a segregated theater and restaurant in Killeen, Texas. In 1965 he became the third Black police officer in Highland Park. McClary ran the juvenile division and helped found a Black officers’ organization. He served as mayor of Highland Park and remained a city council member until he passed away in 2017.

Titus McClary was interviewed in partnership with the Museum of African American History of Detroit and Y Arts Detroit in 2010 as part of the Legacies Project.

Sgt. Klavitter Dies Suddenly

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Parent Issue
Ann Arbor News, January 11, 1937
Day
11
Month
January
Year
1937
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Inspector Kwang Shee Chu Visits With Sheriff John L. Osborn, Mrs. Osborn, and Capt. C. J. Scavarda, June 1945 Photographer: Eck Stanger

Inspector Kwang Shee Chu Visits With Sheriff John L. Osborn, Mrs. Osborn, and Capt. C. J. Scavarda, June 1945 image
Year:
1945
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Ann Arbor News, June 7, 1947
Caption:
Inspector Kwang Shee Chu, representative of China's police agencies, visits with Sheriff John L. Osborn, above right, and with Capt. C. J. Scavarda, Michigan State Police, and Mrs. Osborn. The inspector is touring the United States looking for new devices of law enforcement which China may make use of in the post-war era.
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