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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]
Melinda Modzel, 22, left, a computer instructor at the St. Patrick Senior Center, helps Frances Lewis, 87, a Detroit native, use the computer inside the St. Patrick Senior Center in Detroit on ...
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.
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
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]
Aimee Cox has acknowledged her family for helping and motivating her to pursue her scholarly and academic interests. [5] [7] She dedicated both her PhD dissertation and book Shapeshifters to her sister, Jennifer, whose life was infused with the stories of the young women she encountered at the Detroit shelter.
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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]