TitlePart 03: Early Hamtramck (RealPlayer version) Date1973 SubjectHamtramck (Mich.) -- Immigration and emigration -- Social aspects. DescriptionMrs. Czeslawa Kopacki recalls the city's rapid development of homes. Mrs. Iris Page Butler, an Afri... View Details
TitlePart 01: Life in turn of the twentieth century Poland (RealPlayer version) Date1973 SubjectPoland -- Social life and customs -- 1795-1918. DescriptionStephen A. Majewski, mayor (1926-28), attorney, school board trustee, justice of the peace (1922-26)... View Details
TitlePart 02: Reasons for coming (RealPlayer version) Date1973 SubjectRefugees -- Government policy -- Poland. DescriptionStephen A. Majewski, mayor (1926-28), attorney, school board trustee, justice of the peace (1922-26)... View Details
TitlePart 04: Rapid industrial development/working conditions (RealPlayer version) Date1973 SubjectAutomotive industry -- Michigan -- Hamtramck. DescriptionBeatrice Kobe Adamski, Hamtramck Public Library Director and Michigan Librarian of the Year, shares ... View Details
TitlePart 05: Early political development (RealPlayer version) Date1973 SubjectHamtramck (Mich.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century. DescriptionMrs. Iris Page Butler, an African-American, known as "Hamtramck's Angel of Mercy," Health Department... View Details
TitlePart 06: 1920 Date1973 SubjectProhibition -- Michigan -- Hamtramck. DescriptionMrs. Iris Page Butler, an African-American, known as "Hamtramck's Angel of Mercy," Health Department... View Details
TitlePart 07: Influence of the church (RealPlayer version) Date1973 SubjectSt. Florian Mission (Hamtramck, Mich.) -- History -- 20th century. DescriptionMrs. Iris Page Butler, an African-American, known as "Hamtramck's Angel of Mercy," Health Department... View Details
TitlePart 08: Respect for education (RealPlayer version) Date1973 SubjectPolish Americans -- Education -- Michigan -- Hamtramck. DescriptionAnnie Cairns, originally from Scotland, taught English and Family Living at the Hamtramck High Schoo... View Details
TitlePart 09: Race relations (RealPlayer version) Date1973 SubjectAfrican Americans -- Relations with Polish Americans. DescriptionAnnie Cairns, originally from Scotland, taught English and Family Living at the Hamtramck High Schoo... View Details
TitlePart 10: Tau Beta Community House (RealPlayer version) Date1973 SubjectTau Beta Community House (Hamtramck, Mich.) -- History -- 20th century. DescriptionBeatrice Kobe Adamski, Hamtramck Public Library Director and Michigan Librarian of the Year speaks o... View Details
TitlePart 12: Clubs,social and cultural organizations (RealPlayer version) Date1973 SubjectClubs -- Michigan -- Hamtramck. DescriptionJoseph A. Lewandowski, mayor (1934-36) and municipal judge, remembers how the early Poles built thei... View Details
TitlePart 13: Polish Language and Culture (RealPlayer version) Date1973 SubjectPolish Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- History -- 20th century. DescriptionStephen A. Majewski, mayor (1926-28), attorney, school Board trustee, justice of the peace (1922-26)... View Details
TitlePart 16: K. T. Keller - Chrysler Corporation confrontation (RealPlayer version) Date1973 SubjectKeller, Kaufman Thurma, 1885-1966 -- Political and social views. DescriptionJoseph A. Lewandowski, mayor (1934-36) and municipal judge, shares about his heated confrontation wi... View Details
TitlePart 17: Great Depression Bank Holiday (RealPlayer version) Date1973 SubjectBanks and banking -- Michigan -- Hamtramck. DescriptionCass Piotrowski, attorney and Liberty State Bank Board member tells how there was no need for the ba... View Details
TitlePart 18: The Bowery (RealPlayer version) Date1973 SubjectBowery (Hamtramck, Mich. : Nightclub) DescriptionDave Stober, Hamtramck clothier, Liberty State Bank Board member, civic leader and friend of Frank B... View Details
TitlePart 19: Voting - a treasured right (RealPlayer version) Date1973 SubjectElections -- Michigan -- Hamtramck. DescriptionWalter J. Gajewski, World War II veteran and City Clerk from 1950 to 1979, talks about elections in ... View Details
TitlePart 20: President Harry S. Truman - a shot of bourbon (RealPlayer version) Date1973 SubjectTruman, Harry S., 1884-1972. DescriptionJoseph L. Wisniewski, Hamtramck Police Commissioner, Wayne County Democratic Chairman, Governor G.M.... View Details
TitlePart 21: President John F. Kennedy Date1973 SubjectKennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. DescriptionWalter Bielski, Constable, City Councilman, City Treasurer, Secretary to Congressman Thaddeus M. Mac... View Details
TitlePart 22: The City Date1973 SubjectCommunity development -- Social aspects -- Michigan -- Hamtramck. DescriptionWalter A. Paruk, attorney, World War II veteran, Presidential Unit Citation, municipal judge, 1962-7... View Details
TitlePart 23: Narrator Date1973 SubjectHamtramck (Mich.) -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects. DescriptionSummary comments about the oral history project, "Julia's Prayer: Recollections of Hamtramck, Michig... View Details
TitlePart 14: Business community (RealPlayer version) Date1973 SubjectHamtramck (Mich.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century. DescriptionMax Witkowski and his brother Vernon were clothiers whose store was a fixture on Joseph Campau. Und... View Details
TitlePart 11: Sports (RealPlayer version) Date1973 SubjectSchool sports -- Michigan -- Hamtramck. DescriptionDave Stober, local clothier, civic leader and Peoples State Bank Board member and John Wiencek, life... View Details
TitlePart 15: Great Depression (RealPlayer version) Date1973 SubjectDepressions -- 1929 -- Michigan -- Hamtramck. DescriptionBernard (Barney) Sumner, owner of Barney's Clothes, weathered the effects of the Great Depression al... View Details
TitlePart 02: Reasons for coming (Windows Media version) Date1973 SubjectRefugees -- Government policy -- Poland. DescriptionStephen A. Majewski, mayor (1926-28), attorney, school board trustee, justice of the peace (1922-26)... View Details
TitlePart 01: Life in turn of the twentieth century Poland (Windows Media version) Date1973 SubjectPoland -- Social life and customs -- 1795-1918. DescriptionStephen A. Majewski, mayor (1926-28), attorney, school board trustee, justice of the peace (1922-26)... View Details
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