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Coleman Young
Politician
1918 – 1997
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Who was Coleman Young?
Coleman Alexander Young served as mayor of Detroit, Michigan from 1974 to 1994. Young became the first African-American mayor of Detroit in the same week that Maynard Jackson became the first African-American mayor of Atlanta.
In 1981, he was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP.
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- Born
- May 24, 1918
Tuscaloosa - Religion
- Anglicanism
- Episcopal Church
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Nov 29, 1997
Detroit
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on July 23, 2013
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