Lehmann, Maurice (Interview outline and video), 2015
Oral history
Veterans History Project (U.S.)
United States--History, Military
Veterans
Video recordings
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
United States. Army
Maurice Lehmann was born on March 23, 1924 in Chicago. In March 1943 he was drafted and was processed at Fort Sheridan, Illinois then went to Fort Knox, Kentucky for basic training. He was accepted into the Army Specialized Training Program and went to Ohio State University and Muskingum College for ASTP. After graduating from ASTP he was reassigned to the infantry and received infantry training at Camp Swift, Texas. He was assigned to A Company, 1st Battalion, 405th Infantry Regiment, 102nd Infantry Division to serve as a rifleman and a scout. In September 1944 he sailed out of Camp Kilmer, New Jersey and arrived in Cherbourg, France on September 23, 1944. After further training in France they entered combat in early November 1944. He saw fighting during the Battle of the Bulge then advanced into Germany. He crossed the Rhine River in April 1945 and fought with the 102nd Infantry Division up to the Elbe River and made contact with Soviet troops. At the end of the war he was present for the discovery of the atrocity at Gardelegen. After the war he trained for the invasion of Japan in Tangermunde, then with Japan's surrender he was stationed at Camp Chesterfield, France and studied at Shrivenham American University in England. In March 1946 he returned to the U.S. and was discharged at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin.
Lehmann, Maurice
Veterans History Project collection, (RHC-27)
Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
In Copyright
Leibecke, Robert (Interview transcript and video), 2011
Michigan--History, Military
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American
Bob Leibecke was born into a military family and attended VMI, graduating in 1969. Commissioned in the Army, he attended Infantry Basic School at Ft. Benning, went to Jump School, put in a few months with a transportation unit at the Hunter Liggett Military Reservation for some leadership experience, and then went to Ranger School, and then to Jungle Training in Panama before going to Vietnam. In May, 1970, he was given command of the 1st Platoon in C Company, 2/506, in the 101st Airborne Division. His company participated in the campaign around Firebase Ripcord. They suffered badly in an attack on their position on Hill 902 on July 2, and later helped to rescue another company, D/1/506, on July 23. In August, he was reassigned to be his brigade's liaison officer to the division headquarters, and also served as a liaison with the ARVN 1st Division during their invasion of Laos in early 1971.
Leibecke, Robert
Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
Leistra, Ronald M. (Interview outline and video), 2005
Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American
United States. Navy
Ronald Leistra served in the US Navy during the Korean War. He enlisted in the Navy because he knew he had a very good chance of being drafted. During his time in the service, Ronald served at Barbers Point in Hawaii, and at Whidbey Island in Washington. His units handled maps and made sure they were secure.
Leistra, Ronald M.
Master plan reports
Leland Township (Mich.)
Leelanau County (Mich.)
The Leland Township Master Plan was prepared by the Leland Township Planning Commission with assistance from M.C. Planning & Design and was adopted on July 14, 2008.
Leland Township Planning Commission, Leland Township, Leelanau County, Michigan
Planning and Zoning Center Collection (RHC-240)
No Copyright - United States
David Lemieux video interview and transcript
Young Lords (Organization)
Puerto Ricans--United States
Civil Rights--United States--History
Lincoln Park (Chicago, Ill.)
African Americans--Personal narratives
Social justice
Community activists--Illinois--Chicago
Police-community relations--Illinois--Chicago
Black Panther Party. Illinois Chapter
Race relations
Racism--United States
David (pronounced "Daveed") Lemieux joined the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party in the spring of 1969. At age 16, he was the second youngest member of that Chapter. He was a "rank and file" member and functioned in all BPP activities including the Free Breakfast for Children Program and the dissemination of the Black Panther newspaper. As a member of the Education Cadre, he was constantly engaged with "speaking" the mission and purpose of the Black Panther Party. He remained active with the BPP into the early 70s. In 1982, after consultation with other members of the activist community, David joined the Chicago Police Department and began a 26 year career where he was able to use his office and authority as a vehicle to serve the people. Currently, David Lemieux gives seminars facilitated by Chicago's Black Star Project entitled "Keeping OUR children out of the 'Just US' System" and speaks locally and nationally on the role of peace officers serving the community through the justice system. He is active with the Chicago Black Panther History Project and other efforts committed to preservation, education and reclamation of the true history of our struggle.
Lemieux, David
Lenger, Dewey (Interview outline and video), 2011
United States. Army Air Corps
United States. Air Force
Dewey Lenger was part of the United States Army Air Force during World War II. He took a cadets exam that allowed him to bypass the general draft and eventually become a pilot. He was set to Europe and assigned to fly transport planes, which he had not trained in, and learned to tow gliders and drop paratroops as well as regular cargo missions. He flew first from a British base, and later from a French one. He ferried fuel to Patton's army, dropped supplies for American troops during the Battle of the Bulge, and carried Canadian paratroopers during Operation Varsity.
Lenger, Dewey
Lenger, Sidney (Interview outline and video, 1 of 2), 2011
Sid Linger was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1918. After graduation from high school, Lenger went into business with his father, who ran several stores in the Grand Rapids. He was drafted into the Navy in 1944, and was assigned as a quartermaster on a new LST that was being built at Seneca, Illinois. He sailed on the LST down the Mississippi River, through the Gulf and Mexico and the Panama Canal and into the Pacific Ocean. Lenger's LST transported Marines as part of the massive invasion of Okinawa, where they witnessed many kamikaze attacks. Following the battle, the LST transported the supplies needed for P-38 fighter escorts and supplies to Japan before Lenger left the service. Included with the interview is a video Lenger made himself, combining official Navy training films and video he filmed himself while aboard the LST (see 2 of 2).
Lenger, Sidner
Lenger, Sidney (Interview outline and supplemental video, 2 of 2), 2011
Sid Lenger was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1918. After graduation from high school, Lenger went into business with his father, who ran several stores in the Grand Rapids. After several years, Lenger received his draft notice and following training in Chicago and Virginia, Lenger sailed on an LST down the Mississippi River, through the Gulf and Mexico and the Panama Canal and into the Pacific Ocean. Lenger's LST transported Marines as part of the massive invasion of Okinawa. Following the battle, the LST transported the supplies needed for P-38 fighter escorts and supplies to Japan before Lenger left the service. Included with the interview is a video Lenger made himself, combining official Navy training films and video he filmed himself while aboard the LST.
Lenger, Sidney
Laketon Township (Mich.)
Muskegon County (Mich.)
The Growth Management: A Master Plan draft copy was prepared by Leo Jakobson, AIP, SAFA in December 1977.
Leo Jakobson, AIP, SAFA
Norton Shores (Mich.)
The Master Plan for the City of Norton Shores was prepared by Leo Jakobson, AIP, SAFA and was published on May 8, 1981.
Carmen de Leon video interview and transcript
Puerto Ricans--Personal narratives
Puerto Ricans--Illinois--Chicago--Social conditions
Carmen de Leon is a Young Lord who grew up in New York City and today lives in Loíza, Puerto Rico. A strong advocate for women, Ms. de Leon worked closely with Young Lord Richie Pérez on a range of education and youth centered programs. In her oral history, she recalls her days working with the Young Lords. Ms. de Leon discusses how the Young Lords were infiltrated by government agents and how “ideology” was utilized to factionalize and create divisions within the Movement, including encouraging takeovers, discrediting, and purging leaders. She vividly describes members being taken hostage as well as how she herself was purged from the Young Lords. Her interview provides important insights into how these repressive tactics were carried out and how they ultimately destroyed the connections between the Young Lords and the barrio base.
Leon, Carmen de
Incunabula
Printing 1450-1500
Leonardus, de Utino, active 15th century
One leaf of Sermones de sanctis by Leonardus de Utino. Printed in Basel by Johannes Solidi (Schilling) before July 25, 1474. Illustrated with red rubricated initials. [GW M17884; ISTC il00155000]
Seidman Rare Books Collection
One leaf from Sermones de sanctis by Leonardus de Utino. Printed in Augsburg by the Monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra in 1474. Illustrated with red rubricated initials. [GW M17882; ISTC il00154000]
Augsburg: Monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra
One leaf from Sermones de sancti by Leonardus de Utino. Printed in Basel by Johannes Solidi (Schilling) before July 25, 1474. Illustrated with red and blue rubricated initials. [GW M17884; ISTC il00155000]
One leaf from Sermones de sanctis by Leonardus de Utino. Printed in Strassburg by Martin Schott not after August 3, 1481. Illustrated with red rubricated initals. [GW M17901; ISTC il00163000]
Sermones quadragesimales de legibus dicti [folium 162]
One leaf from Sermones quadragesimales de legibus dicti by Leonardus de Utino. Printed in Ulm by Johann Zainer on March 9, 1478. Illustrated with red rubricated initals. [GW M17922; ISTC il00146000]
Leroy Township (Mich.)
Ingham County (Mich.)
The Leroy Township Master Plan was prepared by the Leroy Township Planning Commission with the assistance of McKenna Associates, Incorporated and was adopted on March 26, 1996.
Leroy Township Planning Commission, Leroy Township, Ingham County, Michigan
McKenna Associates, Incorporated (consultant)
Lesko, Jeneane (Interview transcript and video), 2010
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League--Personal narratives
Baseball for women--United States
Baseball
Sports for women
Baseball players--Michigan
Jeneane Lesko was born in Springfield, Ohio, in 1935. She grew up playing sports, practicing with men's baseball and basketball teams. She was playing for a softball team in Lima, Ohio, when she was recruited into the AAGPBL. She was a pitcher for the Grand Rapids Chicks during the last two seasons of the league, 1953-1954. Because of the larger size ball and the shorter distance between the pitcher's mound and home plate in the women's league, she had control problems as a pitcher in her first season, but still went 8-6. During the final season, when the league changed the rules and played the standard men's game, she did even better. After the league folded, she joined a barnstorming team made up of former league players, and stayed with it for three years. After that, she became a teacher and a professional golfer, and has actively supported women's baseball.
Lesko, Jeneane
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Collection, (RHC-55)
Leslie, Quincy (Interview outline and video), 2008
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives
Quincy Leslie is a WW II veteran from Cheboygan, Michigan who served in the U.S. Army after being drafted in 1942. He served in a radar unit on the New Jersey shore, and then as a supply officer in Hawaii until his discharge in 1946. After the war, he became actively involved in working with veterans in Michigan.
Leslie, Quincy
Levin, Estelle (Interview transcript and video), 2008
Other veterans & civilians--Personal narratives
Women
Estelle Levin grew up in the Chicago area during the Great Depression and attended college during World War II. She provides detailed descriptions of life during the Depression and on the Home Front during the war years, as well as on her working career and the development of social services for women in the decades after the war.
Levin, Estelle
Melvin Lewis video interview and transcript
Melvin Lewis was born in Chicago but today lives in Fayetteville, North Carolina. His parents live in Maywood, Illinois. This is the same town where Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party (BPP) grew up. It is also where, at Maywood’s City Hall, there is a recreation center with a swimming pool named after the slain leader of Chicago’s BPP. There is also a street named “Fred Hampton Way” and a bust of Chairman Fred Hampton. Mr. Lewis is a Chicago Black Panther and freelance writer, a master gardener and certified beekeeper. His recent articles include “Out Loud and Into Print” in the May/June 2012 issue of City View (NC). He writes on music and his publications include features on “Hootie and the Blow Fish,” and singer and song writer “Rene Marie in Pluck!” He has written and broadcast twelve vignettes about civil rights for FM Radio stations 107.7 and 91.9 FM and conducted interviews on horticulture, history and art. Mr. Lewis has also won the Significant Illinois Poet Award and is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is currently assisting with the Chicago Black Panther History Project. Their motto is, “ We will tell our story, in our own words; Illinois Panthers speak for themselves.”
Lewis, Melvin
Lewis, Robert W. (Interview outline and video), 2008
Robert Lewis was drafted into the Army at age 26 and served in the Korean War. Upon being drafted, he joined the Army engineers and worked building bridges in Korea near the front lines. He also worked building foxholes and firing positions for the Marines.
Lewis, Robert W.
Caledonia High School (Caledonia, Mich.)
LGBTQ+ people
College students
Belonging
As a queer person, it's sometimes tough to find religious spaces that feel like they actually accommodate us for all parts of who we are. Finding a church community often means grappling with significant trauma and pain caused by such groups. As a co-facilitator for a queer-oriented group on campus, I wanted to help provide a processing space where we as queer people could help talk about our experiences with religion and how choosing our spiritual future often means reckoning with our spiritual past. In our club discussion, we emphasized that we have the autonomy to choose how we live our lives going forward
for some that may mean keeping our distance, but for some, we may still want to find a space where our spiritual and gender/sexual identities can exist in harmony. For those who are considering coming back to a religious space, this pamphlet was just one of the resources for finding local churches and organizations whose doors are open to those of us who have been shut out elsewhere.
Lex
Grand Valley State University. Kaufman Interfaith Institute
Kaufman Interfaith Institute (exhibitor)
Believing and Belonging on Campus: An Interfaith Photovoice Project (project)
Since I realized I was trans, I knew that being rejected by my family was inevitable. It's been about a year since my father formally decided to disown me and ex-communicate me almost completely. His version of devout Christianity just didn't have room for a queer kid. In addition to the challenges of being financially and emotionally self-sufficient, it's been tough coming to terms with holding on to religion in the face of my own family using it against me. In this specific text message, my father told me that my "decision to rebel against the authority of God is dividing [our] family." Holding onto my religious beliefs has meant taking time to reflect on how my family interpretation of our shared religion doesn't have to compromise who I am as a Christian or as a queer person. I don’t have to choose one or the other. I can just be me.