Dive into the life of writer Betty Smith, who spent years in Ann Arbor with her first husband. During her time in Ann Arbor, she audited playwriting classes and learned from Kenneth Thorpe Rowe.
women at Michigan
In 1961, the Kennedy Ad-ministration sent the U-M Symphony Band to the Soviet Union in hopes of thawing relations between the two countries through the common language of music. Could young musicians succeed as diplomats?
Music
Following the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, southern states offered African American students scholarships to earn graduate degrees at out-of-state (northern) schools — likely to avoid integrating their own academic institutions. Despite later being deemed illegal, the scholarships still continued.
black history at u-m
