Gordy, Berry Sr. (Pop)
- Identifier
- DBB-PER-01618
- Given Name
- Berry Sr.
- Family Name
- Gordy
- Gender
- Male
- Birth Year
- 1988
- Death Year
- 1978
- Description
- Father of Motown Records founder; proprietor of a plastering contracting business in Detroit. Known as "Pop" Berry Gordy Sr. or Berry Gordy II (his father and son were both named Berry Gordy).
- Migration Origin
- Sandersville, Georgia
- Related Person
- Gordy, Bertha Ida (née Fuller)
- Affiliation
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This person was affiliated with the following organization(s):
Booker T. Washington Grocery and Meat Market
Role: Owner and/or Operator (co-owner with wife Bertha Gordy)Gordy Contractors
Role: Owner and/or Operator - Book Pages
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This person, their family, or their business appears in the book Freedom Enterprise on page(s): 26, 27, 33, 41, 53xii, 108, 109, 110, 135, 136.
- References
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"The Gordy Family: Following the North Star," Motown Museum, https://www.motownmuseum.org/legacy/the-gordy-family/.
Berry Gordy Sr., Movin' Up: Pop Gordy Tells His Story (Harper & Row: 1979), https://archive.org/details/movinuppopgordyt0000gord.
Berry Gordy Sr. memorial, Find A Grave database, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40676225/berry-gordy.
"Gordy Family," Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordy_family.
- Documentation
- Freedom Enterprise, xii (Booker T. Washington Grocery)
- Title
- Gordy, Berry Sr. (Pop)
- Resource class
- Person