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Ann Arbor Fair Housing Ordinance (Proposed): Public Hearing / Ann Arbor Common Council; ([R289B]) - 1963 March 19

Item

Title

Ann Arbor Fair Housing Ordinance (Proposed): Public Hearing / Ann Arbor Common Council; ([R289B]) - 1963 March 19

Description

This audio recording features parts of one of the first hearings for the City of Ann Arbor’s proposed Fair Housing Ordinance. In the beginning of this clip, you can hear a speech in support of the ordinance by Albert Wheeler, who was representing the NAACP and would go on to become Ann Arbor’s first Black mayor in 1975 (Stanton, 2021). Wheeler describes many of the types of housing discrimination that Black residents of Ann Arbor faced in seeking homes.

Contextual Citation(s)

Stanton, R. (2021, February 28). The story of Albert Wheeler, Ann Arbor’s first and only Black mayor. MLive. https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2021/02/the-story-of-albert-wheeler-ann-arbors-first-and-only-black-mayor.html

People Represented in the Record

Albert Wheeler

Creator(s) of the Record

WUOM

Date

March 19, 1963

Location

Ann Arbor City Hall, 301 E Huron St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Medium

Audio tape

Type

Hearing

Subject

Mapping Reparative Legal Efforts

Rights

This digitized copy is generously provided for research purposes by the Bentley Historical Library, the institution charged with overseeing the care of the original document. Copyright for this document is held by the Regents of the University of Michigan.

Rights Holder

Regents of the University of Michigan

Source

WUOM records 1914-1982 , 1940s-1960s

Bibliographic Citation

WUOM records, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Item sets

Urban Renewal and the Fight for Fair Housing

Media

Ann Arbor Fair Housing Ordinance (Proposed): Public Hearing / Ann Arbor Common Council; ([R289B]) - 1963 March 19