Recently the Spinners were on the TV show "unsung". They stated that they grew up in Ferndale, Michigan. In the early history segment of the show, every local place they went to looked to me like Royal Oak Township rather than Ferndale. I had thought that during that time period, the 40's, 50's and 60's, that Ferndale really didn't have a lot of African Americans living there. The Spinners also state that one side of Wyoming was Royal Oak Township, and the other side was Ferndale; which I find perplexing, as I thought that both sides of Wyoming at the Eight Mile junction was Royal Oak Township. I think from a postal standpoint that all of it is Ferndale? Did Royal Oak Township have different borders when the Spinners grew up there?
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