Rosa Slade Gragg understood the struggle for black progress, she founded the Slade-Gragg Academy of Practical Arts in 1947, the first black vocational school in Detroit. Known as the Tuskegee of the North, it trained over 2,000 women and returning veterans. This was the first black-owned and operated business on Woodward Avenue in Detroit. Later […]
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