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[4] In Detroit's history, within the crafts Italians concentrated on tileworking. [5] During World War II, Fort Wayne (Detroit) served as home to Italian prisoners of war (POWs) captured during the North African Campaign. After Italy's surrender in September 1943, the POWs were given the opportunity to work as servants, cooks, and janitors.
The Italian Tribune (La Tribune del Popolo) is a newspaper first published in Detroit, Michigan on May 1, 1909 as La Tribuna Italiana del Michigan.It was founded by Vincent Giuliano, with the help of his wife, Maria Giuliano.
Downtown Detroit skyline. The first Italian American in Detroit was Alfonso Tonti (1659–1727) The first Italian American in Detroit was Alfonso Tonti, a Frenchman with an Italian immigrant father. He was the second-in-command of Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, who established Detroit in 1701. Tonti's child, born in 1703, was the first ethnic ...
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]
The National Italian American Foundation estimated that in 1990, Metro Detroit had 280,000 ethnic Italians. [26] As of 2005 the closest remaining large Little Italy near Detroit was Via Italia in Windsor, Ontario, and there was a group of remaining Italian shops and restaurants along Garfield Road in Clinton Township.
The Detroit Partnership (also known as the Detroit crime family, the Detroit Combination, the Detroit Mafia, the Zerilli crime family (Italian pronunciation:), and the Tocco–Zerilli crime family) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Detroit, Michigan.
Detroit (Eastern Market is sometimes referred to as Detroit's "Little Italy" and has fewer Italian-Americans and Italian residents than it did in the early 1900s, but some Italian stores and businesses in the area; East Detroit generally had a higher proportion of Italian immigrants and Italian-Americans) Gaastra; Loretto; Macomb; Norway
Augustus Woodward's plan for the city following 1805 fire. Detroit, settled in 1701, is one of the oldest cities in the Midwest. It experienced a disastrous fire in 1805 which nearly destroyed the city, leaving little present-day evidence of old Detroit save a few east-side streets named for early French settlers, their ancestors, and some pear trees which were believed to have been planted by ...