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Part 03: Early Hamtramck (RealPlayer version)

Lewandowksi, Thomas, 1939 - (prod., narr.)

Oakland Community College

Hamtramck (Mich.) -- Immigration and emigration -- Social aspects.

Immigrants -- Cultural assimiliation -- Michigan -- Hamtramck.

Ethnic neighborhoods -- Michigan -- Hamtramck.

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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.

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Mrs. Czeslawa Kopacki recalls the city's rapid development of homes. 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 also describes the early growth of the city. Mrs. Butler shares that she lunched with President and Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the White House.