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Wessen & Bagley: A Town Within the City Marker — left images
Photographer: Top: Oakland Pioneer and Historical Society. Bottom: Milton Henry Family Archive.
Caption: Wessen & Bagley: A Town Within the City Marker — left images
Additional Description: Top: The corner of Wessen and Bagley, about 1960. Just beside the Woodward Bar-B-Q is the office of physician Ray Cooley Jr., credited with the passage of Pontiac's Fair Employment Ordinance.
Middle: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., speaking at Trinity Missionary Baptist Church in 1958. King was good friends with the church's pastor, Reverend Richard Dixon.
Submitted: June 18, 2021, by Joel Seewald of Madison Heights, Michigan.
Database Locator Identification Number: p592165
File Size: 4.263 Megabytes

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