St. John Street Historical Committee
The St. John Street Historical Committee is an association of residents (affectionately known as "St. John Streeters") who lived in the St. John Street neighborhood of Flint, Michigan and come together, annually, to keep families from the neighborhood connected and history of the neighborhood documented and remembered.
Established in the 1970s, the Historical Committee meets monthly, organizes annual reunions, keeps families connected throughout the year via social media, and creates historically inspired initiatives including developing the annual St. John Street neighborhood calendar. The group’s desire to commemorate the neighborhood - its place, people, and vibrancy - inspired and spurred the St. John Street Neighborhood Memorial Park Plan.
Its mission is to locate, collect and preserve all materials which help to illustrate the history of the St. John Street Community, and to make them accessible to those who wish to examine or use the information to tell the accurate story of the neighborhood as it thrived until it was taken from its residents by eminent domain under the guise of "urban renewal" and construction of I-475.
The full story is here for you and for the future. Let no one forget what happened here and elsewhere across the country under federal, state and local government planning programs, laws and policies. Each of which continue to carry within them the racism that was purposefully embedded within them at this time.
The committee meets at 2pm the second Thursday of each month at the McCree Theater.
Contact: 810-919-2112
3300 Hillview Avenue
Flint, Michigan 48504
jadandy@att.net