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Category : Columbia (S.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 746

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Category : Columbia (S.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1446

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Category : Columbia (S.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 574

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Author: South Carolina Genealogical Society. Columbia Chapter
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Category : Columbia (S.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 61

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Languages : en
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1502

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Author: Sunnie Wilson
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814343880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 197

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Part oral history, memoir, and biography, Toast of the Town draws from hundreds of hours of taped conversations between Sunnie Wilson and John Cohassey, as Wilson reflected on the changes in Detroit over the last sixty years. As part of the great migration of southern blacks to the north, Sunnie Wilson came to Detroit from South Carolina after graduating from college, and soon became a pillar of the local music industry. He started out as a song and dance performer but found his niche as a local promoter of boxing, which allowed him to make friends and business connections quickly in the thriving industrial city of Detroit. Part oral history, memoir, and biography, Toast of the Town draws from hundreds of hours of taped conversations between Sunnie Wilson and John Cohassey, as Wilson reflected on the changes in Detroit over the last sixty years. Supported by extensive research, Wilson’s reminiscences are complemented by photographs from his own collection, which capture the spirit of the times. Through Sunnie Wilson’s narrative, Detroit’s glory comes alive, bringing back nights at the hopping Forest Club on Hastings Street, which hosted music greats like Nat King Cole and boasted the longest bar in Michigan, and sunny afternoons at Lake Idlewild, the largest black resort in the United States that attracted thousands every weekend from all over the Midwest. An influential insider’s perspective, Toast of the Townfills a void in the documented history of Detroit’s black and entertainment community from the 1920s to the present.

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Languages : en
Pages : 1018

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Author: Frances Stilwell Osburn
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Category : Columbia (S.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 62

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"The information in this booklet is recorded from a copy of the 1891 City Directory of Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina ... The pages have been transcribed by Frances and Gene Osburn in 2004 and published in the Columbia chronicle, newsletter of Columbia Chapter, over the past three years"--Foreword.

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