Freedom Enterprise, xvi, xvii (Toodle’s Drug Store)
- Identifier
- DBB-ITM-02635
- Source
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Kendra D. Boyd, Freedom Enterprise: Black Entrepreneurship and Racial Capitalism in Detroit (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025). Pages: xvi, xvii.
- Source Type
- Boyd Research Findings
- Activity
- drug store
- Principal
- Toodle's Drug Store
- Mentions
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Toodle, Aaron Conklin
- Location
- 5250 Beaubien St
- Transcript
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Toodle’s Drug Store. Located at 5250 Beaubien Street and established
by Dr. Aaron C. Toodle. Dr. Toodle was a pharmacist and
successful businessman originally from Plymouth, North Carolina.
Toodle had graduated from Howard University in 1917 and
migrated to Detroit in 1919. By the 1930s, Toodle’s résumé in the
Black business community was extensive. In addition to operating
several drugstores in Detroit, Toodle was also the Michigan
People’s Finance Corporation’s treasurer, general manager of the
Tribune-Independent newspaper, and one of the initial entrepreneurs
who mobilized to establish Detroit Memorial Park Cemetery,
Detroit’s first Black-owned cemetery. - Title
- Freedom Enterprise, xvi, xvii (Toodle’s Drug Store)