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Tuesday 27 Oct 2015 - 12:18 Makkah mean time-14-1-1437
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Dearborn, Michigan (IINA) – US community in Dearborn mourned recently the Muslim pioneer Michael Berry, a Dearborn attorney who was the former chairman of the Wayne County Roads Commission, OnIslam reported.
The 95-year-old Berry who passed away on Saturday, was also a political pioneer in the Arab-American Muslim community.
Recognizing his efforts in organizing and helping bring Arab-Americans and Muslims into the mainstream in metro Detroit, the international terminal at Detroit Metro Airport has been named after him for decades.
A few months ago, the Wayne County Airport Authority agreed to name its new headquarters after Berry due to his notable efforts in helping many of his community members to get government jobs.
Another institution was also named after him, the Michael Berry Career Center in Dearborn Public Schools.
Born in 1920 in Lebanon, Beery moved with his family to the US where he graduated from Fordson Junior College, Wayne College, and Detroit College of Law.
In his late twenties, the Muslim immigrant started his first political activities when he got involved in a recall campaign against Dearborn Mayor at that time, Orville Hubbard.
"He was a pioneer," Warren David, an Arab-American leader who is president of ArabAmerica.com, told Detroit Free Press on Monday.
"He was such a huge institution, an amazing leader in the Arab-American community...He helped a lot of Arab Americans."
Offering condolences to the family of the Muslim pioneer, Dearborn Muslim leaders described him a role model of their community.
Serving as a road commissioner for the Wayne County between 1967 and 1982, the Muslim leader was the chair of the 16th Congressional Democratic District for four terms starting in the 1960s.
Funeral services are to be held 11 a.m. Thursday at the Islamic Center of America.
Berry is the second American Muslim pioneer to die within a month.
On September 26, President of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) Dr. Jamal Barzinji, passed away.
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