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Podcast: Michigan Minute
Episode: Detroit Physician, Michigan Troops, Malcolm X Death | Feb 21
Description: On this day in 1849, the Detroit city council called for the election of a City Physician to combat smallpox outbreaks. In 1865, Michigan African American troops helped liberate Charleston, South Carolina, with four Ypsilantians participating. And in 1965, Malcolm X, who spent much of his youth in Lansing, Michigan, was assassinated.