BY WALTER OPINDE On this day, May 24, 1918, famous politician, labor leader, and civil rights activist, Coleman Alexander Young was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Coleman was the first African-American mayor of Michigan’s largest City, Detroit, for approximately two decades, from 1974 to 1994. This was a service for five complete terms in the office, […]
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