My uncle Hugh Cleage standing by the sound car he rigged up for an election in 1962 Detroit. My sister, Aunt Gladys and I spent hours in that car riding through our community.
yates for congress, disavows illustrated news support 05 Aug 1962, Sun Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan) Newspapers.com
Did you meet the people you were campaigning for? Did you know Yates?
I saw him at meetings. He wasn't a family friend or anything. The adults knew him. I just remember how he looked, not anything he said.
I did know my father, of course, and most of the candidates who ran for the Freedom Now Party. I knew some of the others because they were either members of our church or we went to lots of meetings my sister and I got introduced as "This is my daughter". I knew Ken Cockerel because we were students at Wayne State at the same time.