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Apr 18, 2024 · How Detroit’s Black leaders shaped Detroit’s environmental justice, labor movements. On May 2, 1968, Black workers at the Dodge Main plant in Hamtramck led a multiracial wildcat strike– a work stoppage unauthorized by a union.
Apr 18, 2024 · Despite decades of concern from residents, every day hundreds of semi-trucks speed, idle, and emit dangerous pollutants on residential streets in Southwest Detroit, the result of historical zoning, international trade, and according to residents, a general disregard for the safety and health of the lower-income Black and brown Detroiters who liv...
2 days ago · Before the ghetto riot of 1967, Detroit's black population had the highest rate of home-ownership of any black urban population in the country, and their unemployment rate was just 3.4 percent. It was not despairing that fueled the riot.
May 3, 2024 · Detroit Neighborhood Map: Downtown: Hey, this is urban, Corktown: Hipster Foodies, Midtown: Use to be Chinatown , Briggs: Still Cass Corridor, Rivertown: Suburban ...
5 days ago · May 7, 2024. Jewish Historical Society of Michigan and the Detroit Historical Museum present “In the Neighborhood: Everyday Life on Hastings Street,” about the Jewish enclave that used to exist in Black Bottom. Schatzman and Handler Deli, 378 Hastings Street in Detroit.
3 days ago · Eighty-one years ago this week, 7,000 desperate, starving, and poorly equipped Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto revolted against their Nazi captors. For 27 days, through sheer willpower and determination ...
Publication Date: 2003. This book explores the history of Mexican and Mexican American people in the state of Michigan. Roughly 100 years are covered, from 1900 to 2000.
