Parents Take Over School Head's Office in Willow Village
Item
- Title
- Parents Take Over School Head's Office in Willow Village
- Description
- This newspaper clipping describes a demonstration by parents of students in the Willow Village school district, which covered an area developed in between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti alongside the World War II era Willow Run factory (Sherman & Shackman, 1995)(Four Willow Run Schools Care For Great Influx, n.d.). Black parents of students in the system had organized themselves with the help of Rev. David A. Blake Jr. of Bethel A.M.E. Church to protest the potential move of Black students from the integrated Ross school to the segregated Simmonds school.
- Contextual Citation(s)
- Sherman, D., & Shackman, G. (1995, July). Willow Run’s Glory Days. Ann Arbor Observer. https://aadl.org/aaobserver/19341.
- Four Willow Run Schools Care For Great Influx. (n.d.). Ann Arbor District Library. Retrieved December 1, 2021, from https://aadl.org/aa_news_19431118-four_willow_run_schools_care_for_great_influx.
- 1956 Village map—Willow Run Village. (n.d.). Willow Run Village: A Place Where People Came - People Left & History Was Made. Retrieved December 1, 2021, from http://www.willowrunvillage.info/map-of-village.
- People Represented in the Record
- Rev. David A. Blake Jr.
- Creator(s) of the Record
- Unknown
- Date
- September 18, 1947
- Location
- As the names of sites and streets have changed over time, it is hard to easily identify in what building this demonstration occurred. From a 1956 map of the area (1956 Village Map - Willow Run Village, n.d.), it seems that the center of the general geographic of area where the former Willow Village was can now be found at Middleton St, Superior Charter Twp, MI 48198. Nearby sites included both the Simmonds School and the Ross School, which are no longer searchable online.
- Medium
- Paper
- Type
- Newspaper clipping
- Subject
- Mapping Resistance and Community Action
- Rights
- This digitized copy is generously provided for research purposes by the Ann Arbor District Library, the institution charged with overseeing the care of the digital item. Copyright for this document is retained by the Ann Arbor News.
- Rights Holder
- Ann Arbor News
- Source
- Ann Arbor District Library
- Bibliographic Citation
- Parents Take Over School Head’s Office In Willow Village | Ann Arbor District Library. (n.d.). Retrieved December 1, 2021, from https://aadl.org/aa_news_19470918_p28-parents_take_over_school_heads_office_in_willow_village.
