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Charles Coles Diggs Sr. (January 2, 1894 – April 25, 1967) was the first African-American Democrat elected to the Senate of the State of Michigan. Born in Tallula, Mississippi, to James J. Diggs and Lilly Granderson, Diggs moved to Detroit in 1913, where he owned a successful funeral home on the lower east side.
Charles Coles Diggs Jr. (December 2, 1922 – August 24, 1998 [1]) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Michigan who served in the state senate and U.S. House of Representatives. He was the first African American elected to Congress from Michigan. A member of the Democratic Party, Diggs was an early participant in the civil rights ...
A flower arrangement from Otis Williams and The Temptations sits in a hallway during the funeral for the Four Tops' Duke Fakir at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit, on Friday, Aug. 2, 2024.
Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press August 2, 2024 at 12:20 PM The funeral of the Four Tops' Duke Fakir took place at 11 a.m. at Detroit's Hartford Memorial Baptist Church.
The Col. Frank J. Hecker House is a historic home in Detroit built in 1888 for local businessman and railroad-car manufacturer Colonel Frank J. Hecker.Located at 5510 Woodward Avenue, it was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1958. [2]
The Jefferson–Chalmers Historic Business District is a neighborhood located on East Jefferson Avenue between Eastlawn Street and Alter Road in Detroit, Michigan.The district is the only continuously intact commercial district remaining along East Jefferson Avenue, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
The Rev. Charles G. Adams, retired pastor of Detroit’s influential Hartford Memorial Baptist Church, died on Nov. 29 after a long illness.He was known as the Harvard Hooper, one of Black America ...
[20] In addition to the Jackson family, the "Four Hundreds Club" included the Coles, Bells (owner of the J.F. Bell Funeral Home), Tonslers, and Inges families. [20] The Jackson family lived at 520 Pearl Street in Charlottesville's predominantly African-American neighborhood, Vinegar Hill. In 1939, white city officials intentionally destroyed ...