![]() John Conyers while living in a home on Columbus Street near Northwestern High School. ![]() For more than 20 years, she worked as a secretary for Rep. Lots of pizza and sports! Also, lots of land speculation and taxpayer expenses!īut among one of the more feel-good stories to pop up about Ilitch is how he paid the rent for Rosa Parks – the original embodiment of “she was warned, she was given an explanation, nevertheless, she persisted” – when she moved into the Riverfront Towers in the mid-1990s.ĭid the pizza magnate help with the living expenses for the civil rights icon? Yes. For how long? Well, not as long as some news outlets are claiming – and, for that matter, not as much as a contribution as implied.įirst, a back story: Years after the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Parks and her family moved to Detroit in the 1960s. You know this, because we’ve been publicly mourning the man for what, a week now? Granted, Ilitch did a lot for Detroit, and yes, maybe we were just a little too quick in lionizing his accomplishments without acknowledging that he leaves behind a complex legacy. ![]()
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