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How Martha Jean ‘the Queen’ Steinberg helped calm Detroit during the summer of 1967

Fifty years ago for four long, hot summer days, Detroit was in chaos, and for 48 hours during during the civil unrest radio personality Martha Jean “the  Queen” Steinberg stayed on air, urging people to go home. “‘We have to remember all the people who were great,’” Steinberg’s daughter, Treina, recalls her mother saying. “‘As a […]

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