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Title
Part 05: Early political development (RealPlayer version)
Creator
Thomas Lewandowski, 1939 - (prod., narr.)

Institution
Oakland Community College

Subject
Hamtramck (Mich.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.

Subject
Polish Americans -- Michigan -- Hamtramck.

Subject
Hamtramck (Mich.) Township Council -- History -- 20th century.

Item Number
EX01a005

Relation
Extracts from oral histories of Hamtramck, MI in the Albert J. Zak Memorial Library (Hamtramck), Detroit Public Library (Burton Collection), Hamtramck Historical Collection, Library of Michigan, Macomb County Library, Oakland Community College Libraries.

Type
sound, image

Format
mpeg2

Description
Mrs. Iris Page Butler, an African-American, known as "Hamtramck's Angel of Mercy," Health Department nurse from 1918 to 1965 and resident since 1903; Stephen A. Majewski, mayor (1926-28), attorney, school board trustee, justice of the peace (1922-26) and Peoples State Bank Board member; Joseph A. Lewandowski, mayor (1934-36) and municipal judge and Rev. William Brooks, Jr., Pastor of the Corinthian Baptist Church, civic and political leader, national Republican convention delegate, share about how political power in Hamtramck was appropriated from the original German-American settlers by the Poles and municipal politics became their pastime.

Part 05: Early political development (RealPlayer version)

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