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1865-1890. After the war, African Americans formed an important political block in the city, led by Watson, George DeBaptist, John D. Richards, and Walter Y. Clark. [15] Saginaw's William Q. Atwood was an important figure outside Detroit who influenced the city's African-American politics as well. [16]
That year, Wayne County had 77,207 Latinos, the largest number of Latinos in any Michigan county, with 61% of them living in Detroit. Of the Latinos, 53,538 were Mexican, 9,036 were Puerto Rican, and 1,595 were Cuban. In Michigan Wayne County has the highest numbers of Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans.
The U.S. Census Bureau has estimated that there are approximately 1.396 million Americans of Hungarian descent as of 2018. The total number of people with ethnic Hungarian background is estimated to be around 4 million. [3] The largest concentration is in the Greater Cleveland Metropolitan Area in Northeast Ohio.
Taste the Diaspora is a grassroots initiative that celebrates the cuisines of the African diaspora. For the second year in a The post Detroit chefs create African diaspora lunches for Black ...
As of 1951 Metro Detroit had about 3,000 Albanians. [2] A wave of mass immigration came in 1992 with the breakup of Yugoslavia and it continued in the 1990s. [1] Some Catholic ethnic Albanians from Montenegro entered the United States from Mexico and settled in Detroit. [5]
Sammarinese Americans ( Italian: Americani sammarinesi) are Americans of Sammarinese descent. The largest Sammarinese-American communities are in Michigan, mostly in the cities of Troy and Detroit. [4] Sammarinese immigrants in Troy established institutions such as the San Marino Club and Re Monti Stentorian. [5] [6]
Ron Walters. Ronald W. Walters (July 20, 1938 – September 10, 2010) was an American author, speaker and scholar of African-American politics. [2] He was director of the African American Leadership Institute and Scholar Practitioner Program, Distinguished Leadership Scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, and professor in ...
A February 6, 1900 article in the Detroit Free Press stated that "Detroit's Colony of Syrians" included 75-100 people, mostly Lebanese Maronites. The Lebanese worked as peddlers and shopkeepers. Henry Ford 's factories had 555 Syrian employees, including many recently-arrived Muslims, by 1916. 9,000 Arabic-speakers were among the residents of ...