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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.
Esther Gordy Edwards (née Gordy; April 25, 1920 – August 24, 2011) [1] was a staff member and associate of her younger brother Berry Gordy's Motown label during the 1960s. [2]
Mount Olivet Cemetery (usually abbreviated and stylized as Mt. Olivet Cemetery) is a cemetery at 17100 Van Dyke Avenue in the city of Detroit in Wayne County, Michigan.It is owned and operated by the Mt. Elliott Cemetery Association, a not-for-profit Catholic organization that is otherwise administered independently from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit and any of the various Catholic ...
The markedly wealthy family owned a private Learjet, and lived in the affluent Detroit suburb of Lathrup Village. [15] [n 1] By 1968, Richard Jr. attended Eastern Michigan University, [17] Gary was a student at Southfield-Lathrup High School, Randall was a middle school student, and Susan—described as a "pony mad" child—a first grade student.
Aimee Stephens (December 7, 1960 – May 12, 2020) was an American funeral director known for her fight for civil rights for transgender people. [1] She worked as a funeral director in Detroit and was fired for being transgender.
Detroit, as seen from Windsor, Canada. The following is a list of people from Detroit, Michigan. ... Search the City [548] Bob Seger [549] James Royce Shannon [550]
Mount Elliott Cemetery is the oldest extant cemetery in the city of Detroit, [3] and contains 65 acres (260,000 m 2). [4] It is located on Mount Elliott Avenue just north of Lafayette Street. The cemetery is owned and operated by the Mt. Elliott Cemetery Association , who own a group of cemeteries in the Metro Detroit area.
Samantha Woll (June 15, 1983 [1] – October 21, 2023) was a Jewish community leader, founder of the Muslim-Jewish Forum of Detroit, the president of Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue in Detroit, Michigan. On October 21, 2023, she was found stabbed to death outside her home. [2]