Development of Our Own
- Identifier
- DBB-BUS-01421
- Name
- Development of Our Own
- Type
- Organization or Club
- Activity
- community and social needs
- Year Established
- 1933
- Description
- Development of Our Own was an organization founded in 1933 to promote business as a means toward economic security and self-determination. This organization stressed the importance of economic cooperation among people of color. Detroit police sought to suppress the organization and raided their headquarters at 2299 E Congress Street in 1934, but the organization survived into the 1940s.
- Location
- 2299 E Congress St
- Affiliates
-
Grimes, George
Role: FounderTakahashi, Satochasi
Role: OfficerTakahashi (Mrs)
Role: Officer - Book Pages
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This business or an affiliated person appears in the book Freedom Enterprise on page(s): 114, 117, 118.
- Documentation
- Freedom Enterprise, 117-118 (Development of Our Own)
- Title
- Development of Our Own
- Resource class
- Organization