Letitia Byrd with newspaper clippings, February 2001 Photographer: Lon Horwedel
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2001
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Ann Arbor News, February 9, 2001
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Letitia Byrd wants to create a black history museum in the 1825 house that her husband, David, renovated in the 1970s and '80s. Byrd, with newspaper stories on the renovation, said the museum would be created to honor her late husband, a restoration expert who used the home as his office.
Ann Arbor News, February 9, 2001
Caption:
Letitia Byrd wants to create a black history museum in the 1825 house that her husband, David, renovated in the 1970s and '80s. Byrd, with newspaper stories on the renovation, said the museum would be created to honor her late husband, a restoration expert who used the home as his office.
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To Build Apartments On Novy Homestead
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1
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July
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1958
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Apartment Unit To Replace Historic Novy Home
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5
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July
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1958
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Take A Tour Of African-American History
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27
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February
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1996
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Restoration: Answer To Housing Needs?
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31
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December
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1978
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New Museum To Honor Civic Leader, Architect
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9
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February
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2001
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AACHM Oral History: Rosemarion Blake
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Rosemarion Alexander Blake was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1923 to Jewel Alexander Price and Jacob Price. She was brought to Ann Arbor between two to four years of age by her great Aunt Hattie and Uncle Robert Alexander. Rosemarion attended Jones School Kindergarten through 9th grade and graduated from Ann Arbor High School in 1941. She held a number of jobs after graduating and in 1945 became the first African-American woman to work in city Hall in a non-custodial position. A number of years later, she worked in Publication Sales at the Institute for Social Research from 1970 until her retirement in 1987.