Dr. Tommie Johnson

Collection:: Detroit 67: Looking Back to Move Forward
Title:: Dr. Tommie Johnson
Publisher:: Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Historical Society
Date of Original:: 2018-11-07
Subject:: Race riots--Michigan--Detroit
Civil rights movements--Michigan--Detroit
Nineteen sixty-seven, A.D.
Location:: United States, Michigan, Wayne County, Detroit, 42.33143, -83.04575
Medium:: oral histories (literary works)
Type:: MovingImage
Format:: video/mp4
Description:: In this interview, Dr. Johnson speaks about the daily life in the Black Bottom/Paradise Valley neighborhood. She specifically describes her experiences as a young girl having a very close community experience with her neighbors and family members (e.g. her aunts, uncles, and cousins) who also all lived in the neighborhood during her childhood. She also describes the atypical strongly academic values in her household particularly for the time.
Metadata URL:: http://detroit1967.detroithistorical.org/items/show/748
Additional Rights Information:: Detroit Historical Society
Contributing Institution:: Detroit Historical Society
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