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- Description:
- April 2003: Olivia Letts shares her memories of Lansing in the 1950s and 1960s, with special focus on her role as a leader in the Lansing School District and the local African-American community, at the Turner-Dodge House and Heritage Center.
- Date Created:
- 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Meet Your City Video Series
- Description:
- An interview with Dr. Eva Evans, a long-time leader in the Lansing School District and a member and former national president of the Alpha Kappa Alpha African-American sorority. She was interviewed by Polly Schwendener on April 27, 2009. No transcript has been produced. A summary appears on page 14 of the <a href="http://www.cadl.org/lhonline/Lansing 150 OH Booklet.pdf">Lansing 150 Sesquicentennial Oral Histories Booklet</a> booklet.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing 150 Oral Histories
- Description:
- An interview of Jim Vlahakis, conducted by Mary Jane Wilson in the Forest Parke Library and Archives, Capital Area District Libraries, in 2009. Mr. Vlahakis was the son of restaurant owners and himself went into the restaurant business in Lansing. No transcript has been produced. A summary appears on pages 36-37 of the <a href="http://www.cadl.org/lhonline/Lansing 150 OH Booklet.pdf">Lansing 150 Sesquicentennial Oral Histories Booklet</a> booklet.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing 150 Oral Histories
- Description:
- An interview of Dorothy Silk, conducted by Christy Nichols in the Forest Parke Library and Archives, Capital Area District Libraries, in 2009. Mrs. Silk and her husband Leonard moved to Lansing in the 1950s. She was involved in local education and they were both leaders in the Lansing area's Jewish community. No transcript has been produced. A summary appears on page 33 of the <a href="http://www.cadl.org/lhonline/Lansing 150 OH Booklet.pdf">Lansing 150 Sesquicentennial Oral Histories Booklet</a> booklet.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing 150 Oral Histories
- Description:
- A truck with palm trees, two young people in ethnic costume, and various flags in a Fourth of July parade, at the corner of Washington and Allegan streets in downtown Lansing. Kositchek's, Parker's Shoes, and other businesses along Washington Avenue are seen in the background.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- In spring 2008, a committee of Lansing Rotary Club members and community leaders convened to plan Lansing's sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary celebrations. One of the many projects was an oral history initiative spearheaded by retired MSU Arts and Letters professor and author Marilyn Culpepper. Students in MSU's American Studies 881 course assisted in the creation, transcription, and editing of the recordings. The purpose of the project was to provide historical context for the year-long celebrations. About 20 interviews were done, and have been digitized by the Forest Parke Library & Archvies at CADL in 2015 and 2016. Any interview for which there is a signed release on file is available for access online; those without releases may be accessed in the Local History Room at CADL. All interviews have been transcribed and are available in the Lansing 150 booklet that is linked in each record.
- Date Created:
- [2008 TO 2009]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing 150 Oral Histories
- Description:
- An interview of Olivia Letts by Christy Nichols at an unidentified location, 2009, as part of the "Lansing 150" Sesquicentennial project. Mrs. Letts was a teacher and then a principal in the Lansing Public Schools. No transcript has been produced. A summary appears on page 22 of the <a href="http://www.cadl.org/lhonline/Lansing 150 OH Booklet.pdf">Lansing 150 Sesquicentennial Oral Histories Booklet</a> booklet.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing 150 Oral Histories
- Description:
- The Arbeiter Unterstutzung Verein (Worker Support Club) Hall located at 608 North Grand Avenue. The society was organized in 1875 and built its first hall in 1882; at one time it had over 500 members. The building in this photograph was dedicated in 1905. The gardens in back were the location for many social events. The society was closed out in 1931 due to lack of younger membership, at the time the last of the viable Michigan Arbeiter societies. It was an insurance organization that provided illness and death benefits, mainly for members of Lansing's German-American community, and also a social organization.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- This collection contains contains approximately 150 memorial service cards for funerals held at the Riley Funeral Home and/or the Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church (sometimes called the Collins A. M. E. Church) in Lansing, Michigan. They are organized alphabetically by last name. Most date from the early 1960s through the 1970s, with a few earlier than 1960. Some of the memorial cards include brief biographies of the deceased. The Trinity A. M. E. Church and Riley Funeral Home are historically black organizations, though all the deceased individuals in this collection may not necessarily be African-American. These cards were given to the Forest Parke Library and Archives in 1992 by a donor who wished to remain anonymous. A name index is attached to this record. For further information please contact the library.
- Date Created:
- [1960 TO 1979]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- African-American Memorial Cards
- Description:
- Charlie Spagnuolo and Julane Quick talk about the Italian families who immigrated and settled in Lansing, at the Turner-Dodge House and Heritage Center.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Meet Your City Video Series
