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Mays Multimedia

Black-owned downtown printer and design studio since 1946: same-day printing, event materials, signage and book publishing.

01 / The story of this place

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Mays Multimedia started as Mays Printing in 1946, founded by J. Caulton Mays, a Tuskegee Airman and Wilberforce University graduate, and the business literally began in a Detroit streetcar. His son James C. Mays took over in 1986, and since 2011 granddaughter Elizabeth Mays has run it as a Black female-owned company. Today it handles same-day business printing, design, event and memorial programs, book production, signage and apparel.

  1. Founded in 1946 by a Tuskegee Airman
  2. Three generations, now led by Elizabeth Mays
  3. Same-day printing and event materials
  4. Book production and publishing for local authors

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