Mary L. Beasley Collection, 1930-1950
0.3 linear feet, 1 volume, and 1 oversize folder.
Mary L. Beasley (Mary Mattie Lou Green Beasley, née Green) was president of Unit 7, Detroit Housewives’ League, a women’s organization that supported Black-owned businesses and helped train Detroit’s young African Americans for careers in business in the 1930s.
Collection contains mostly Detroit-published printed material related to Detroit African American business, entrepreneurship, and religious life; Beasley’s scrapbook with newspaper clippings about successful African American entrepreneurs, scholars, athletes, religious leaders, lawyers, and representatives of other professional and civil circles; and several photographs, including a signed portrait of Coleman A. Young. Also, a small collection of programs, mostly for Rev. William H. Peck commemorative events.