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  2. Wayne Kramer, Influential MC5 Co-Founder and Guitarist, Dies ...

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    A.D. Amorosi. February 2, 2024 at 5:19 PM. Wayne Kramer, the co-founding guitarist and composer of Detroit’s punk band MC5, whose social activism carried on throughout his lengthy solo career ...

  3. Manuel Moroun - Wikipedia

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    Manuel Moroun. Manuel "Matty" Moroun (June 5, 1927 – July 12, 2020) was an American billionaire businessman, most notable as the owner of the Ambassador Bridge international crossing connecting Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario. [2] [3] The bridge, which Moroun purchased from the Bower family in 1979, is one of the few privately owned ...

  4. William Tocco - Wikipedia

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    Tocco spent most of the last nine years of his life in Miami, Florida. On May 28, 1972, he died in Bon Secours Hospital (now Beaumont Hospital) in Grosse Pointe City, Michigan. He was 75 years old and he left behind his wife Rosalia, his children, and 28 grand children. The funeral was held in the Church of the Holy Family in Detroit.

  5. Temple Baptist Church – King Solomon Baptist Church

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    King Solomon Baptist Church, founded in 1926, purchased the Temple Baptist Church buildings in 1951. The Main Auditorium, with a capacity of over 5,000 people, was at the time the largest African American-owned auditorium in Detroit. The church was an important location to the Civil Rights Movement, as it was an early member of the Progressive ...

  6. Armed with rifles, a ‘mudroots’ Detroit group wards off crime

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    Detroit’s challenges are complex and rooted in its Rust Belt history. Once the global center of the automotive industry, Detroit was the fourth-largest city in the U.S. in the 1920s. Its ...

  7. Anthony Joseph Zerilli - Wikipedia

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    Anthony 'Tony' Joseph Zerilli (October 24, 1927 - March 31, 2015) was an Italian-American mobster from Sterling Heights, Michigan. From 1949 he was one of the majority owners of the highly profitable Hazel Park Raceway. In 1970 he succeeded his father Joseph Zerilli as head of the Detroit Partnership ("The Partnership") criminal organization.

  8. Solomon Sibley - Wikipedia

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    Solomon Sibley (October 7, 1769 – April 4, 1846) was an American politician and jurist in the Michigan Territory who became the first mayor of Detroit. Early life: 1769–1815 [ edit ] Sibley was born in Sutton, Massachusetts , [1] the son of Ruth and Reuben Sibley. [2]

  9. Message to the Grass Roots - Wikipedia

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    Message to the Grass Roots. " Message to the Grass Roots " is a public speech delivered by black civil rights activist Malcolm X. The speech was delivered on November 10, 1963, at the Northern Negro Grass Roots Leadership Conference, which was held at King Solomon Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan. [1] Malcolm X described the difference ...

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