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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]
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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.
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 ...
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
The Detroit chapter of The Links Incorporated, founded in 1951, is the presenter of "Our History, Our Story: The Detroit Chapter of The Links," an exhibit which opens to the public on July 27 at ...
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 ...
Sue Kim first encountered the inspiration for her new film “The Last of the Sea Women,” which arrives Friday on Apple TV+, when she was an 8-year-old from a Detroit suburb vacationing with her ...