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AACHM Oral History: Lois Allen-Richardson
Lois Allen-Richardson was born in 1942 in Ypsilanti, where she remembers attending Harriet Street School and spending time at Parkridge Center. As a young adult, she worked briefly at Goodman’s Fashion Center in the heart of Ypsilanti’s Black business district. Allen-Richardson is an ordained minister and served as a missionary in Haiti and Trinidad. Since 2000 she has been a member of the Ypsilanti City Council, where she has been a strong advocate for the city’s south side. In June 2020, she became Ypsilanti’s first Black woman mayor after the resignation of her predecessor.
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AACHM Oral History: Mary McDade, Alma Wheeler Smith, and Nancy Cornelia Wheeler
Mary McDade was born in Columbia, South Carolina in 1939, but grew up in Ann Arbor. Her parents Albert and Emma Wheeler were active in local politics and civil rights. As a college student, McDade helped found the University of Michigan chapter of the NAACP. She moved to Peoria, Illinois with her husband Joe Billy McDade in 1963. After raising four children, she built a career in law. McDade graduated from the University of Illinois College of Law and she has been a justice of the Illinois Appellate Court since 2000.
View historical materials for Mary McDade.
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AACHM Oral History: Sharon Gillespie
Sharon Gillespie was born in 1945 and raised by her grandmother in Oklahoma before moving to Ann Arbor with her mother at age nine. She remembers redlining in Ann Arbor and the breakup of the historically Black neighborhood she grew up in. She helped raise two younger sisters while her mother attended ophthalmology school at the University of Michigan. Gillespie excelled in her career as a typesetter at local businesses. After retiring, she has been active in volunteering at homeless shelters and hospice programs. She was married to Raymond Gillespie for 21 years.
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AACHM Oral History: Diana McKnight-Morton
Diana McKnight-Morton was born in 1944 and grew up on West Kingsley Street in a racially mixed neighborhood. Her parents Robert and Adeline Thompson ran a successful carry-out restaurant, DeLong’s Bar-B-Q, on Detroit Street for 38 years. McKnight-Morton got her master’s in guidance and counseling from Eastern Michigan University and became a supervisor for Washtenaw County Employment and Training and Community Services. She has served as a member of the Washtenaw Community College Board of Trustees since 1994.
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AADL Board of Trustees Special Meeting - September 13, 2021
If you wish to make a public comment at this meeting, you can send your comment, along with your name and address, via email to ask@aadl.org . It will be read during the public comment section of the meeting. If you watch the meeting live on YouTube, you can make a comment in the YouTube chat, and it will be read at the end of the meeting. We will also accept video comments of up to 3 minutes emailed to ask@aadl.org , or voicemail message at 734-327-4245, and they will be played during the meeting. Please include your name and address in your comment. If you need any assistance participating or to make a comment, please email us at ask@aadl.org or call 734-327-4245. Thank you for your patience and flexibility. For more information, see aadl.org/aboutus/board
This video originally appeared here on our YouTube channel, AADL.tv
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AADL Board of Trustees Meeting - July 26, 2021
This meeting will be streamed on this page at 7:00 PM on Monday, July 26th, 2021. Due to the pandemic, it will not be possible to attend this meeting in person, but you can watch it live on YouTube from this page. If you wish to make a public comment at this meeting, you can send your comment, along with your name and address, via email to ask@aadl.org . It will be read during the public comment section of the meeting. If you watch the meeting live on YouTube, you can make a comment in the YouTube chat, and it will be read at the end of the meeting. We will also accept video comments of up to 3 minutes emailed to ask@aadl.org , or voicemail message at 734-327-4245, and they will be played during the meeting. Please include your name and address in your comment. If you need any assistance participating or to make a comment, please email us at ask@aadl.org or call 734-327-4245. Thank you for your patience and flexibility. For more information, see aadl.org/aboutus/board.
This video originally appeared here on our YouTube channel, AADL.tv
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Mental Health in the Asian American and Pacific Islander Community
The month of May is both Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month as well as Mental Health Awareness Month. Tonight’s event will involve discussion around mental health concerns, experiences, and access to care among AAPI populations.
What is mental health? What affects it? What are ways to cope? What are resources to help? How do we destigmatize it? What questions do you have about it?
Come join us for a discussion facilitated by licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Jennifer Tang, PhD, director of Everwell Health and Counseling Services, as well as a panel of advocates from the AAPI community.
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AADL Board of Trustees Meeting June 28, 2021
This meeting will be streamed on this page at 7:00 PM on Monday, June 28th, 2021.
Due to the pandemic, it will not be possible to attend this meeting in person, but you can watch it live on YouTube from this page.
If you wish to make a public comment at this meeting, you can send your comment, along with your name and address, via email to ask@aadl.org . It will be read during the public comment section of the meeting.
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AADL Board of Trustees Meeting - May 24, 2021
This meeting will be streamed on this page at 6:00 PM on Monday, May 24th, 2021.
Due to the pandemic, it will not be possible to attend this meeting in person, but you can watch it live on YouTube from this page. If you wish to make a public comment at this meeting, you can send your comment, along with your name and address, via email to ask@aadl.org . It will be read during the public comment section of the meeting.
If you watch the meeting live on YouTube, you can make a comment in the YouTube chat, and it will be read at the end of the meeting. We will also accept video comments of up to 3 minutes emailed to ask@aadl.org , or voicemail message at 734-327-4245, and they will be played during the meeting. Please include your name and address in your comment. If you need any assistance participating or to make a comment, please email us at ask@aadl.org or call 734-327-4245. Thank you for your patience and flexibility.