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1900: At the beginning of the century, Detroit had 285,704 residents (13th largest city in the U.S. 1901 Detroit Tigers baseball team formed. 1902 Cadillac Automobile Company in business. Wayne County Courthouse built. Future aviator Charles Lindbergh born. 1903 Ford Motor Company and Pewabic Pottery in business. Board of Commerce formed. 1904
Detroit: Detroit Epic News: 1960s [18] 1900s ... Sometimes considered the first African American newspaper in Detroit. [42] Detroit: Point Of Production: 1972 [43]? [43]
The sixth and most recent version (to date) of the Detroit Times was published as an evening paper from 1900 until November 6, 1960. The Times was brought back to life by James Schermerhorn October 1, 1900 as Detroit Today but quickly changed its name to the Evening Times.
The gang was led by brothers Abe, Joe, Raymond, and Izzy Bernstein, [8] who had moved to Detroit from New York City. [9] While in Detroit casino operator Lincoln Fitzgerald was a gambler and he became associated with the Detroit Purple Gang. [10] In 1976 Fitzgerald opened a 16 story casino which he named Fitzgeralds Casino & Hotel. [11]
The Dearborn Independent, also known as The Ford International Weekly, was a weekly newspaper established in 1901, and published by Henry Ford from 1919 through 1927. At its height during the mid-1920s it claimed a circulation of between 700,000 and 900,000.
In 1900, Detroit had a population of 285,000 people, making it the thirteenth-largest city in the U.S. [38] Over the following decades, the growth of the automobile industry, including affiliated activities such as parts and tooling manufacturing, came to dwarf all other manufacturing in the city. The industry drew a million new residents to ...
From 2000 to 2010, Detroit had lost around 200,000 people, as many families continued to leave the ailing city. [44] The housing market in Metro Detroit declined during the Great Recession, enabling some blacks to move into areas that had previously been too expensive. At the same time, many white suburbanites were unable to sell their houses ...
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