Coleman Alexander Young was an politician who served as mayor of Detroit, Michigan from 1974 to 1994. Young was the first black mayor of Detroit. He also became the city's longest-serving mayor. Young was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to William Coleman Young, a dry cleaner, and Ida Reese Jones. His family moved to Detroit in […]
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