Martha Reeves, Lyman Woodard join 'Cotton Club'

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Long-lost black films return in U-M series

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Community Panel To Discuss State Of Race Relations In Ann Arbor

AACHM Oral History: Paul Edwin Wasson
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Paul Edwin Wasson was born September 8, 1923, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. After leaving school in the tenth grade, Mr. Wasson joined the United States Army at the beginning of World War II. In 1943, Mr. Wasson left the Army and came to Detroit. Arriving on the heels of the Detroit Riots, he decided to head west to Ypsilanti. Mr. Wasson marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s; worked at the University of Michigan Hospital for seventeen years, and is most proud of his children. He encourages all young people to get an education.