November 21 1974: Entertainment agent and columnist Rollo S. Vest dies

On this day in 1974, Rollo S. Vest joins the ancestors.

He was 60.

An entertainment booking agent and newspaper columnist who attended Miller High and Cass Technical High School, Vest was largely credited with coining the name of the wildly popular African-American business and cultural district of the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s known as Paradise Valley.

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Ken Coleman

Ken Coleman, the author of On this Day: African-American Life in Detroit, is a native Detroiter and former news reporter. He served on the Detroit Charter Revision Commission. He lives in Detroit with his wife, Kim Trent, and their son, Jackson Coleman.

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