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Coleman Young
Coleman Young was the 70th Mayor of Detroit, Mi and served during WWII as one of the Tuskegee Airmen.
Coleman Young was born in Tuscaloosa, Al. Being close to Tuskegee, Al, when WWII began, Young signed of for the air force and would be part of the 477 Medium Bomber Group which was also known as the Tuskegee Airman. Young would serve mostly as a navigator. In 1945, in Seymour, In, Young and the soldiers from the 477 marched into an all white officers club and a riot broke out. There were 163 charges brought up on the 477 group but none on the white soldiers. The case would be known as the Freedom Field Mutiny.
After the war, Young would head to Detroit to be with his family. Here, Young would become big in the Civil Rights Movement trying to segregate all of the Army and any other all white place. He was named as head of the National Negro Labor Council and worked to help offer the same job oppertunities to African Americans as white people got. It was here where he would enter politics and be named to the Michigan Senate. After 9 years in the senate, Young decided to run for mayor of Detroit.
In 1973, Young was ashamed to see his home city of Detroit running the way it was with poverty and an all white police department. One unit of the Detroit Police Department was connected to 8 African American deaths within a four month period. With a slogan intended to clean up the streets of Detroit, Young would become the 70th Mayor of Detroit and the first African American of Detroit in 1973. He would be elected a total of 5 times as Mayor and serve the city for an amazing 20 years with that tital.
As Mayor, Young would disbann the police department that resulted in those deaths, and turn an all most white police department into a more populated black police department. When he took over as mayor, the police department was only 19%, but when he left office, the police department was 63% black. He also started bigger patrol units in more dangerous parts of Detroit to help clean the streets. But Detroit never could escape its dirty past and it was still over run with crime and over population od African Americans. Many saw Young as the problem why Detroit could never clean up and Young was speculated to accept kickbacks to turn his head. After 20 years as Mayor, Young would step down in 1993.
Coleman Young is buried at Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit, Mi.
Coleman Young
Coleman Young was the 70th Mayor of Detroit, Mi and served during WWII as one of the Tuskegee Airmen.
Coleman Young was born in Tuscaloosa, Al. Being close to Tuskegee, Al, when WWII began, Young signed of for the air force and would be part of the 477 Medium Bomber Group which was also known as the Tuskegee Airman. Young would serve mostly as a navigator. In 1945, in Seymour, In, Young and the soldiers from the 477 marched into an all white officers club and a riot broke out. There were 163 charges brought up on the 477 group but none on the white soldiers. The case would be known as the Freedom Field Mutiny.
After the war, Young would head to Detroit to be with his family. Here, Young would become big in the Civil Rights Movement trying to segregate all of the Army and any other all white place. He was named as head of the National Negro Labor Council and worked to help offer the same job oppertunities to African Americans as white people got. It was here where he would enter politics and be named to the Michigan Senate. After 9 years in the senate, Young decided to run for mayor of Detroit.
In 1973, Young was ashamed to see his home city of Detroit running the way it was with poverty and an all white police department. One unit of the Detroit Police Department was connected to 8 African American deaths within a four month period. With a slogan intended to clean up the streets of Detroit, Young would become the 70th Mayor of Detroit and the first African American of Detroit in 1973. He would be elected a total of 5 times as Mayor and serve the city for an amazing 20 years with that tital.
As Mayor, Young would disbann the police department that resulted in those deaths, and turn an all most white police department into a more populated black police department. When he took over as mayor, the police department was only 19%, but when he left office, the police department was 63% black. He also started bigger patrol units in more dangerous parts of Detroit to help clean the streets. But Detroit never could escape its dirty past and it was still over run with crime and over population od African Americans. Many saw Young as the problem why Detroit could never clean up and Young was speculated to accept kickbacks to turn his head. After 20 years as Mayor, Young would step down in 1993.
Coleman Young is buried at Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit, Mi.