Jessie Pharr Slaton dedicated her life to the service of the people of Detroit and of Michigan. She became one of the first African-American women in Detroit's City government to hold a white-collar job. Slaton was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1983. At the age of eight, she along with her family moved to Detroit. […]
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