Detroitland
a collection of movers, shakers, lost souls, and history makers from Detroit's past
by Richard Bak
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From The Books Back Cover: Welcome to Detroitland, where award-winning journalist Richard Bak brings to life episodes from roughly a century of Detroit's colorful history. Bak tackles familiar names like Frank Murphy, the Purple Gang, the Lone Ranger, "Potato Patch" Pingree, and Charles Lindbergh. He also introduces little-known Detroit characters like the Black Legion, Detroit's own version of the Ku Klux Klan: Jonny Miler, the man who walloped Joe Louis in the Brown Bomber's first-ever amateur fight; patrolman Ben Turpin, the terror of Black Bottom criminals; Sophie Lyons, legendary "Queen of the Underworld" and Detroit philanthropist; and Shorty Long, Brenda Holloway, the Velvelettes, and other forgotten Motown artists of the 60's.
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Biography, History, Detroit (mich.), history, Michigan, biographyPlaces
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Detroitland: a collection of movers, shakers, lost souls, and history makers from Detroit's past
2011, Wayne State University Press
in English
0814334997 9780814334997
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"A Painted Turtle book."
Includes index.
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