Before the decades of civic corruption and neglect, and white flight. Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech there two months before he made it famous in the Washington march.Once in a Great City shows that the shadows of collapse were evident even then. The progressive labor movement was rooted in Detroit with the UAW. Motown was capturing the world with its amazing artists. The auto industry was selling more cars than ever before and inventing the Mustang. Reuther’s UAW had helped lift the middle class.The time was full of promise. It was the American auto makers’ best year the revolution in music and politics was underway. Franklin and his daughter, the amazing Aretha Governor George Romney, Mormon and Civil Rights advocate super car salesman Lee Iacocca Mayor Jerome Cavanagh, a Kennedy acolyte Police Commissioner George Edwards Martin Luther King. The city’s leaders are among the most visionary in America: Grandson of the first Ford Henry Ford II influential labor leader Walter Reuther Motown’s founder Berry Gordy the Reverend C.L. It’s 1963 and Detroit is on top of the world.
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