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The Model Cities Program was an element of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson 's Great Society and War on Poverty. The concept was presented by labor leader Walter Reuther to President Johnson in an off-the-record White House meeting on May 20, 1965. [1] In 1966, new legislation led to the more than 150 five-year-long, Model Cities experiments to ...
Stephen Benedict Grummond was born in Marine City, Michigan, and made his fortune in the shipping and marine industry. Grummond was originally a Democrat, but joined the Republican Party when it was established, and served on the Board of Estimates, the Detroit City Council, and one term as mayor. 41 Marvin H. Chamberlain: 1886–1887
The Ossian H. Sweet House is a privately owned house located at 2905 Garland Street in Detroit, Michigan. The house was designed by Maurice Herman Finkel, and in 1925 it was bought by its second owner, physician Ossian Sweet, an African American. Soon after he moved in, the house was the site of a confrontation when a white mob of about 1,000 ...
Detroit’s challenges are complex and rooted in its Rust Belt history. Once the global center of the automotive industry, Detroit was the fourth-largest city in the U.S. in the 1920s. Its ...
The Empowerment Plan was established as a 501 (c)3 nonprofit corporation in 2011, by Veronika Scott, who was a student at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. Beginning as a school project, Scott initially designed the sleeping bag coat, called "Element S (urvival)" from the Tyvek home insulation and wool army blankets to help the ...
Arab-owned businesses in Dearborn, Michigan. In 2004, Metro Detroit had one of the largest settlements of Middle Eastern people, including Arabs and Chaldo-Assyrians in the United States. [1] As of 2007 about 300,000 people in Southeast Michigan traced their descent from the Middle East. [2]
Veronika Scott is an American social entrepreneur and CEO and founder of The Empowerment Plan, a Detroit-based humanitarian organization. Personal life and education [ edit ] Scott was born on June 27, 1989, in Orange, California , but was raised in Huntington Woods, Michigan , a town just outside of Detroit.
Art on the Move is an annual summer arts program held in Detroit, Michigan. The organization sponsors temporary art installations during the summer months. These temporary pieces are created by resident artists, who in turn mentor young artists as the public works are executed and erected. Funding for Art on the Move has come from architectural ...