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The Detroit Study Club is a Black women's literary organization formed in 1898 by African American women in Detroit, Michigan, who were dedicated to individual intellectual achievement and Black community social betterment. [1] The Club emerged in the 1890s around the same time as numerous other Black women's clubs across the country. [2]
League of Catholic Women Casgrain Hall 1927. The League of Catholic Women Building is located at 100 Parsons Street in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. It is also known as Casgrain Hall or the Activities Building. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. [1]
Heather Ann Thompson is an American historian, author, activist, professor, and speaker from Detroit, Michigan.Thompson won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for History, the 2016 Bancroft Prize, and five other awards for her work Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.
Beginning in the 1980s, for the first time in its history, Detroit was a majority-black city. [185] This drastic racial demographic change resulted in more than a change in neighborhood appearance. It had political, social, and economic effects as well. In 1974, Detroit elected its first black mayor, Coleman Young. [186]
Tilework from Pewabic Pottery around front door of Women's City Club. The Women's City Club is a women's club located at 2110 Park Avenue in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, within the Park Avenue Historic District. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1979. [1] [2]
It was the first fraternal benefit society operated exclusively by women. [1] Established as a woman's auxiliary in 1886, it was approved by the 1890 "Great Camp" of the Knights, incorporated in 1891, split in 1892, re-incorporated in 1895 in conformity with the provisions of the Fraternal Act of 1893, and merged into the Knights in 1926. [2]
[2] 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.
Journal of Women in Culture and Society 4 (1979), 447-464. Reprinted in Classical and Medieval Literature , ed. Julia O. Krstovic (Detroit, New York, Fort Lauderdale, London 1989), and in Re-reading Sappho: A Collection of Critical Essays , ed. Ellen Greene (Berkeley and Los Angeles 1997), Vol. 2.