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Theresa Landrum, July 24th, 2024
In this interview, Theresa Landrum shares her experience with climate change and its effects on her community and the city of Detroit.
Thelma Edwards, July 11, 2016
In this interview, Edwards details what it was like growing up on the west side of Detroit and discusses the week of July 23rd, 1967, during which she was working at Detroit Receiving Hospital as a registered nurse.
Ted Van Buren, March 19th, 2016
In this interview, Van Buren discusses working in a de facto segregated hospital in Detroit in the 1960s and his recollections of the 1967 disturbance. He compares modern day society and race relations to what he experienced in the 1960s.
Tarya Simo
Tarya Simo and her siblings were children whose mother owned a shop in 1967.
Tammy Black, April 27th, 2024
In this interview, Tammy Black discusses the ways her organizations, the Manistique Community Treehouse Center and Communities Power, have attempted to mitigate and educate on the effects of climate change in Detroit. She also explains the social and…
Tamara Perrin
Tamara Perrin worked for the Michigan Bell Telephone Company and was a single mother living above a white woman in July of 1967.
Susan Dodd, May 17th, 2016
In this interview, Susan Dodd describes her life as a young mother living in the Jeffries Projects and the challenges of finding adequate places to shop so she and her fellow residents established a food co-op and a milk program. In July of 1967, she…
Sue Williams
Sue Williams had moved just before the events of July 1967. She remembers seeing the door of her old apartment on the news "riddled with bullets."
Sue Wabeke
Sue Wabeke describes traveling within Detroit to and from work in July, 1967.
Sue Schmittroth
Sue Schmittroth was a teenager who was staying in the cultural center of Detroit in July of 1967. She and her friends explored around the city during the unrest to quell their curiosity and got into more than one altercation with law enforcement.
Sue Scherwitz
Sue Scherwitz recounts the unusual details of her wedding which took place during the unrest on July 28, 1967.
Steve Moss
Steve Moss was a 12 year old child returning from a family vacation in July of 1967.
Stephanie Chang, July 16th, 2024
In this interview, Senator Stephanie Chang talks about how she sees Detroit handling climate change and what she is doing personally.
Stephan French
Stephan French remembers growing up in Northwest Detroit in 1967. He recalls regular visits to the Twelfth Street district before the unrest and the changing of the neighborhood afterward.
Stella Heatley, August 12th, 2016
In this interview, Heatley discusses caretaking of children, traveling around the city, and having to stay at home with the children during the week of the unrest.
Stefanie Blackburn
In this interview, Stefanie Blackburn discusses living and growing up in Delray within Southwest Detroit in the 1990's. She talks about what brought her family to Detroit, the racial make-up of her neighborhood was like, and to her the word…
Stanley Wegrzynowicz, July 23rd, 2016
In this interview, Wegrzynowicz discusses his experiences with race growing up in a primarily Polish neighborhood. He also describes his experiences during the unrest, which included being witness to the Air National Guard being given their orders at…
