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.
- 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.
