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Category: Alabama

Quotations – Mayor Coleman A. Young

December 20, 2025 Ken Johnston

While researching Detroit for my upcoming walk, I accidentally stumbled upon a small book at the University of Pennsylvania’s Van…

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Posted in: Alabama, Detroit, People, Resistance

Tent City was the land poor African American farmers set up after being chased from their land by white vigilantes for their cooperation in assisting Freedom marchers.

February 26, 2018 ken

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