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 Wils

The life and times of Sunnie 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

An in-depth study of an important African American resort town and the intersections among race, class, tourism, entertainment, and historic preservation in the

Stanley J. Winkelman (1922-1999) was a powerful and influential man in the Detroit business community. After graduating from the University of Michigan and beco