Josephine Gomon was a Detroit teachers and a social and political activist who, among many other things, helped found Planned Parenthood, helped run the Detroit Housing Commission during the Great Depression, and served as the Director of Women Personnel at the Willow Run bomber plant.
Famed for her tireless dedication to improving the lives of fellow Michiganders, she was known as “a city’s conscience.” Join us to learn her story from Michelle McClellan, the Johanna Meijer Magoon Principal Archivist at the Bentley Historical Library.