Freedom Enterprise, xvii (Young’s Tailoring and Dry Cleaners)
- Identifier
- DBB-ITM-02639
- Source
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Kendra D. Boyd, Freedom Enterprise: Black Entrepreneurship and Racial Capitalism in Detroit (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025). Pages: xvii.
- Source Type
- Boyd Research Findings
- Activity
- tailors and cleaners
- Principal
- Young, William C.
- Location
- 1943 St Aubin Ave
- Transcript
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Young’s Tailoring and Dry Cleaners. Located at 1943 St. Aubin
Avenue between Sherman and Maple, this shop was established
by William C. Young, the father of future Detroit mayor Coleman
Young. The Young family migrated to Detroit in 1923 from
Alabama. The business was plowed over in 1950 to make way
for the Gratiot urban renewal project. [Because Coleman Young
does not mention the formal name of his father’s business in his
memoir, I have assigned it this moniker.] - Title
- Freedom Enterprise, xvii (Young’s Tailoring and Dry Cleaners)
- Resource class
- Documentation