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Deadline Detroit | 6 Carl Levin recollections are amusing, touching and revealing

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July 30, 2021, 2:46 PM
Politicians tributes to Carl Levin are just part of today s reactions to the widely admired ex-senator s death at 87. Less formal sentiments flow from ordinary folks touched by his actions, his humanity and his humor.
Carl Levin in 2014 on Off the Record, a Lansing public television program.
(Photo: Flickr/WKAR)
A Washington journalist recalls a surprising display of emotion. Dan Kilee describes a kindness when the future Flint congressman was 18. From Lansing, a former state employee tells how talking about a shared childhood hobby captivated the senator.
And a Detroit entrepreneur shares an amusing memory involving Slurpees.
Below is what they and others say about a lion who looked like a teddy bear, in the words of Capitol Hill journalist Jason Dick, deputy editor of Roll Call. ....

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Deadline Detroit | Oh, the stories they tell: Carl Levin recollections are amusing, touching and revealing

Deadline Detroit | Oh, the stories they tell: Carl Levin recollections are amusing, touching and revealing
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KKK's legacy of hate in mid-Michigan: 'It doesn't just go away'

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On Labor Day in 1924, nearly 15,000 Ku Klux Klansmen in white robes descended on Lansing. They marched from East Michigan Avenue to Washington Avenue, headed for the state Capitol.
A crowd of 50,000 lined the route cheering the Klan floats, banners and hooded members during the massive “State Klonvocation.”
Lansing police directed traffic and “members of the Klan aided the officers in keeping the aisle clear for the procession,” according to coverage in the State Journal.
“The Avenue was a veritable river of white as far as the eye could see,” the article read.
Seven decades later, in late April 1994, the KKK received a very different reception when 27 Klan members rallied on the Capitol steps. ....

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