Detroitland
Subtitle: a collection of movers, shakers, lost souls, and history makers from Detroit's past
By: Richard Bak
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780814334997
Subjects: Biography; History
Description: From The Books Back Cover: Welcome to Detroitland, where award-winning journalist Richard Bak brings to life episodes from roughly a century of Detroit's colorful history. Bak tackles familiar names like Frank Murphy, the Purple Gang, the Lone Ranger, "Potato Patch" Pingree, and Charles Lindbergh. He also introduces little-known Detroit characters like the Black Legion, Detroit's own version of the Ku Klux Klan: Jonny Miler, the man who walloped Joe Louis in the Brown Bomber's first-ever amateur fight; patrolman Ben Turpin, the terror of Black Bottom criminals; Sophie Lyons, legendary "Queen of the Underworld" and Detroit philanthropist; and Shorty Long, Brenda Holloway, the Velvelettes, and other forgotten Motown artists of the 60's.
Notes: "A Painted Turtle book."

Includes index.