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In the early 20th century, the middle-class women of the Detroit Federation of Women's Clubs' (DFWC) promoted civic mindedness within the context of traditional gender roles. Most of them were married to prominent business and professional leaders. Issues of public health, sanitation, and public safety were of vital concern to all families.
In 1702, she and a female travel companion became the first white women to travel and reach Fort Pontchartrain De Troit, where Cadillac joined her husband who had arrived a year earlier. [2] While at the fort she engaged in many aspects of managing it, including signing contracts and hiring explorers.
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Kennedy Johnson was 15 years old when she gave birth to a baby girl in a Detroit foster home for teen moms, in February 1996. Twenty-five years later, when Johnson found herself in northern Ghana ...
The 32-year-old Canadian was an unmarried woman from a family of wealth and privilege. ... Bugas is perhaps the most consequential lawman in Detroit history. He led the fight against mobsters ...
114 women who signed a charter in 1896 to establish the Woman's Hospital Association [129] Martha Strickland Clark (1853–1935) 2006 First woman to argue a case before the Michigan Supreme Court. Orator on women's suffrage, temperance, and finance [130] Mary Esther Daddazio (1924–2015) 2006 Women's rights [131] Margery Feliksa (1925–2001) 2006
Franklin Wright Settlements' Detroit story has played out across 143 years, but each chapter has included mission-driven women committed to service.
The Frances Harper Inn is a house located at 307 Horton Street in Detroit, Michigan. It is significant for its operation, between about 1915 and 1950, by the Christian Industrial Club, a Detroit Black women's club. The club used the house to provide safe and affordable housing for Black women and girls who did not have families to house them.
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