The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with The Honorable Dennis Archer

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with The Honorable Dennis Archer

10/16/2017

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2017.183

Political leader and lawyer Dennis Archer (1942 - ) was an associate justice on the Michigan Supreme Court from 1985 until 1990. He served as Mayor of Detroit from 1994 until 2002 and became the first African American President of the American Bar Association in 2003. Archer was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 10/16/2017, in Detroit, Michigan. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 10; Total Run Time: 04h 45m 56s

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Archer, Dennis W. (Dennis Wayne), 1942-

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Dennis Wayne Archer (born January 1, 1942) is an American lawyer, jurist and former politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he notably served as the 67th Mayor of Detroit, Michigan, the second African American to serve in the office, from 1994 to 2001. Born in Detroit, Michigan and raised there and in rural Cassopolis, Michigan, he graduated from Ross Beatty High School in Cassopolis before attending Wayne State University, the Detroit Institute of Technology, and Western Michigan Unive...