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Albert Eugene Cobo (October 2, 1893 – September 12, 1957) was an American politician who served as mayor of Detroit from 1950 to 1957.
Cobo, Albert. Detroit Mayor Albert Eugene Cobo was born in Detroit on October 2, 1893. While he attended night school to study business administration and accounting, he opened and ran two candy stores in the city.
10 sept. 2018 · Albert Cobo, Detroit’s mayor from 1950 to 1957, openly campaigned in 1949 on a promise to prevent the “Negro invasion.”
- Jeffrey Horner
11 oct. 2017 · The legacy of the late Detroit Mayor Albert E. Cobo is coming under renewed debate amid a call to rename the downtown convention center that bears his name. Cobo served as Detroit’s mayor...
8 sept. 2017 · Cobo was controversial in that his urban renewal plans displaced African Americans in Detroit – a lot of them. Jamon Jordan, a historian and tour leader for the Black Scroll Network History and Tours, joined Stateside today to explain the situation and to answer this question: Who exactly was Albert Cobo?
5 oct. 2017 · By 1950, a new mayor, Albert Cobo, razed the community largely made up of black renters. It was replaced by a middle class set of townhouses, and high rise apartments and condominiums units called Lafayette Park, albeit designed by world acclaimed Mies van der Rohe. By October 1956, Pavilion Luxury Apartments broke ground. Construction of the I ...
29 août 2019 · The building once known as Cobo Hall will now be called “TCF Center.” The change marks a small but notable shift in the city’s history, losing a reference to Mayor Albert Cobo, who led Detroit through a segregationist and exclusionary time period in the 1950’s.
