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Coverage: Detroit (Mich.) Publisher: Wayne State University Press Subject: African American businesspeople Subject: African American businesspeople--Michigan--Detroit Subject: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts Collection: Wayne Open Book Collection Collection: Wayne Open Book Collection-
Toast of the town: the life and times of Sunnie Wilson
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 ta…