July 24, 2017- Thomas Sugrue was celebrating his fifth birthday on July 24, 1967, and his big surprise was a trip to a parade near his home on Asbury Park. The parade would be like none other, as National Guard vehicles rolled down Fenkell on...
Published by Crain's Detroit Business At one point, Joe Von Battle's record store in Detroit had an inventory of 35,000 albums and the equivalent of almost $2.5 million in revenue. That was in the late 1940s, when Joe's Record Shop on Hastings Street was just one...
The Detroit Historical Society collected over 500 oral histories as part of the Detroit 67 Project. Today's Detroit Free Press features the oral history of Lucile Watts, a Detroit lawyer who worked to release black men wrongly detained during the July 1967 uprising. Ms. Watts...
The Detroit Historical Society collected over 500 oral histories as part of the Detroit 67 Project. Today's Detroit Free Press features the oral history of John Colling, the senior publicist for the police and fire department during July 1967. Browse the oral history archive...
Description Janet Lemmon oral history interview, Detroit 1967 Oral History Project, Detroit Historical Museum. Publisher Detroit Historical Society Date 03/22/2017 Rights Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI Format Audio/Mp3 Language en-US Type Oral History Narrator/Interviewee's Name Janet Lemmon Brief Biography Sister Janet Lemmon was at Marygrove College in Detroit during the events of July 1967. Interviewer's Name William Winkel Interview Place Monroe, MI Date 01/31/2017 Interview Length 00:03:20 Transcriptionist Julie Vandenboom Transcription Date 03/01/2017 Transcription WW: Today...