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Jean Ledwith King Oral History Collection, circa 1927-2011 (majority within 2011)

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Ann Arbor, Michigan attorney who spent her career fighting sex discrimination in education, sports, and politics. The collection contains oral history interviews, tribute statements, and photographs collected on the occasion of renaming the Women's Center of Southeastern Michigan after Jean Ledwith King and for the creation of a documentary, "The Power of One: Celebrating Jean Ledwith King," by John Owens.

The Jean Ledwith King Oral History Collection is composed of visual materials collected by John Owens to celebrate King's life and work in 2011, when the Women's Center of Southeast Michigan was renamed in King's honor.

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Video Recordings, 2010-2011

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The Video Recordings series (2010-2011, 62.4 GB) contains digital moving image files and is arranged by genre into three subseries: Documentary, Interviews, and Tribute Statements. The Documentary subseries contains two versions of "The Power of One: Celebrating Jean Ledwith King" created by John Owens. The Interviews subseries consists of oral history interviews conducted with King and various individuals familiar with King and her work, including some of those involved with particular cases, such as two members of the Michigan State University Women's Basketball team in the late 1970s. The Tribute Statements subseries includes statements from politicians, female athletes, and a former law partner honoring King and her impact, particularly with regard to women in politics and sports. Some of the digital file names in this series have been changed for consistency with spelling found in other sources.