Philip Levine (poet)
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Philip Levine was an American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. He taught for more than thirty years in the English department of California State University, Fresno and held
Levine reading in 2006
Charles Coughlin
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Charles Edward Coughlin, commonly known as Father Coughlin, was a Canadian-American Catholic priest based near Detroit. He was the founding priest of the National Shrine of the Little Flower. Dubbed "
Philip Levine (poet)
…Priscol (Pryszkulnik) Levine, was a bookseller. When Levine was five years old, his father died. While growing up, he faced the anti-Semitism embodied by Father Coughlin, the pro-Nazi radio priest. In high school, a teacher told him, "You write like an angel. Why don't you think about becoming a writer?" At this point…
Father Coughlin in 1933
Charity Crucifixion Tower in front of National Shrine of the Little Flower, Royal Oak, Michigan
President Roosevelt
Father Coughlin (right) and Senator Elmer Thomas on the cover of Time Magazine (1934)