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Suspect Well-Known In 'System'

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Ann Arbor News, January 12, 1987

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1987

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Teens Facing Trial As Adults

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Ann Arbor News, June 4, 1987

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June

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1987

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Rev. John W. Tennyson and Two Volunteers Plan "Peanuts for Polio" Sale, January 1956

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1956

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Ann Arbor News, January 13, 1956
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'Peanuts for Polio': Two young volunteers for the "peanuts for polio" sale here Saturday get last-minute briefing from the Rev. John W. Tennyson of the First Baptist Church, sale chairman. They are Kay Thayer, and eight grade student at Roosevelt School, and Norman Terrall, an Ypsilanti High School junior. Junior and senior high school students from eight Ypsilanti area churches will sell bags of unshelled peanuts on downtown streets tomorrow. Proceeds go to the March of Dimes.

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AACHM Oral History: Johnny Barfield

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Johnny W. Barfield was born February 8, 1927, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. As a child he sold soap house to house and, after tenth grade, joined the U.S. Army where he served in France and Germany. After leaving the Army in 1947, Mr. Barfield became a wall washer for the University of Michigan, where hard work, entrepreneurship, and innovation helped him build the largest cleaning business in Ann Arbor. Mr. Barfield is widely recognized for his philanthropic work and support of the African American and business communities.