Repost from @blackdetroiters • JET magazine covers from the 1950s and ‘60s featuring Detroit socialites, models, entertainers, and businesswomen. June Roxborough was the wife of attorney John Roxborough Jr. His father was John Roxborough Sr., manager and mentor to Joe Louis. He was also the numbers (lottery) man in Detroit. Freda Payne was born and raised in Detroit and worked with greats likes Quincy Jones and Holland-Dozier-Holland. In 1976, she recorded the hit song “I Get High (On Your Memory).” Emma Louise Eagan and her husband, Dr. John P. Eagan Sr., were both Meharry Medical College grads. He was the first Black orthodontist in Michigan. Eagan Orthodontics is still operating in Southfield. John H. Johnson of Chicago was the founder of iconic Black publications like Negro Digest (1942), Ebony (1945), JET (1951), and HUE. Black Detroit was a great source of content for JET, Ebony, and HUE because it was known as a “city of wealthy negroes.” Detroit’s Black bourgeoisie was very prominent during these times. #BlackDetroiters #BlackDetroit #Detroit #JET #Ebony (at Downtown Detroit) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cph2iLYuxf-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
