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The Detroit metropolitan area has one of the largest concentrations of people of Middle Eastern origin, 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]
Portrait of Myles Horton, founder of Highlander Folk School. Photographer Unknown. WHS Image ID 52275 Myles Horton in the 1930s. Myles Falls Horton (July 9, 1905 – January 19, 1990) was an American educator, socialist, and co-founder of the Highlander Folk School, famous for its role in the Civil Rights Movement (Movement leader James Bevel called Horton "The Father of the Civil Rights ...
Prohibition Era (1920–1930) In the 1920s and early 1930s, during the Prohibition Era, the Jewish Purple Gang operated alcohol smuggling and committed acts of violence in Detroit. By the early 1930s the gang had been weakened and organized crime groups from the East Coast wrested control of the territory from the Purple Gang.
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February 8, 2024 at 10:21 AM. Detroit City Councilmember Mary Waters announced Thursday her bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Detroit, in Michigan's 13th congressional district. Waters ...
Message to the Grass Roots. " Message to the Grass Roots " is a public speech delivered by black civil rights activist Malcolm X. The speech was delivered on November 10, 1963, at the Northern Negro Grass Roots Leadership Conference, which was held at King Solomon Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan. [1] Malcolm X described the difference ...
Detroit City Council could decide this week on whether to approve incentives for part of a $3 billion development in the New Center area that is a collaboration among Henry Ford Health, the ...