Grayce (Johnson) Blake (1930-1971)
Grayce Evelyn Blake was born on New Year's Eve, December 31, 1930 in Detroit, Michigan to Rev. David A. Blake Sr. and Grace Rogers Blake. She attended Jones School and Ann Arbor High School, where her 1948 senior yearbook noted her nickname as simply "Blake". Grayce Blake was an active member of the Bethel AME Church choir, following in the footsteps of her mother, as well as several high school singing groups. Following graduation, she left for Washington D.C. and became a student at Howard University.
Blake, Miss Grayce E.
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Legacies Project Oral History: Ruth Carey
Ruth (née Dorsey) Carey was born in 1937 and grew up in West Virginia, Georgia, and Ohio. She attended Greenbelt College in Illinois and nursing school in Cleveland, Ohio. She and her husband had two children and moved to Ann Arbor to pursue graduate education. She graduated from the University of Michigan School of Public Health and went on to teach at the School of Nursing. She is passionate about educating new parents about health and nutrition. During retirement she began visiting inmates at the federal prison in Milan as a volunteer with the Prisoner Visitation & Support program.
Ruth Carey was interviewed by students from Skyline High School in Ann Arbor in 2015-16 as part of the Legacies Project.
Larry Sanders & Robert Meyers Prepare Thanksgiving Turkeys For Milan Prison Inmates, November 1976 Photographer: Robert Chase
Year:
1976
Ann Arbor News, November 25, 1976
Caption:
Larry Sanders (Left) And Robert Meyers Ready To Carve Prison Turkeys
970 Pounds Of Jail Birds
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Aerial Photograph of Milan Federal Correction Institution, August 1951
Year:
1951
Clarence J. Guienze and Charles J. Hughes at the Milan Federal Correctional Institute, July 1971 Photographer: Cecil Lockard
Year:
1971
Milan Says Escapers Pose Danger
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Bond Set At $100,000 For Convicts
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Escapers Charged In Bank Robbery
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