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The 1980 U.S. Census counted 1,213 ethnic Chinese in the City of Detroit. Zia wrote that the figure was "surely an undercount" but that the Chinese population in the City of Detroit "was unquestionably small." [4] The presence of family-owned businesses in the Detroit Chinatown area had declined by the 1980s. Zia wrote that by that decade, the ...
In 1921, a group of eight social welfare organizations in Detroit's Black community banded together to form what was then known as the Detroit Association of Colored Women's Clubs. In later years, more organizations joined the association, and by 1941 the association and its president, Rosa Gragg, began looking for a permanent headquarters ...
Although it is unclear when Chinese immigrants first arrived in Detroit, as newspapers in the 1800s did not differentiate between the different cultures of East Asia, it is known that in 1874, 14 Chinese washermen lived in the city. [6] In 1905, Detroit's first two Cantonese chop suey restaurants opened near the Detroit River. [7]
By February 1972, the Association of Chinese Americans was established and incorporated in Detroit, with Alex Mark as its first president. In late 1971, K.L. Wang also met with a group of about 20 Chinese Americans in the St. Louis community. This meeting lead to the formation of the League of Chinese Americans in early 1972.
As an early member of the Association of Chinese Americans in Detroit, Shen designed the association's logo and participated in many events over a span of 50-plus years, according to his family.He ...
Curtis Chin grew up in 1980s Detroit around his family's Chinese restaurant, Chung's. In a new memoir, he explains how it taught him everything he knows.
In 1872, the first Chinese person came to Detroit and further Chinese people established restaurants and businesses. The Immigration Act of 1965 had increased Asian settlement into Metro Detroit, with immigrants from South Asia, China, Korea, and the Philippines. Many of the immigrants who arrived after the act were doctors, engineers, nurses ...
While her business has been a success so far thanks to this hard work, Detroit's real estate boom helped fuel this success. The median price plummeted to $58,900 in 2009 and the city filed for ...