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2. Frances Harper Inn - Wikipedia

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   The Frances Harper Inn is a house located at 307 Horton Street in Detroit, Michigan. It is significant for its operation, between about 1915 and 1950, by the Christian Industrial Club, a Detroit Black women's club. The club used the house to provide safe and affordable housing for Black women and girls who did not have families to house them.

3. Detroit Association of Women's Clubs Building - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Detroit Women's City Club - Wikipedia

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   Tilework from Pewabic Pottery around front door of Women's City Club. The Women's City Club is a women's club located at 2110 Park Avenue in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, within the Park Avenue Historic District. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1979. [1] [2]

5. LGBTQ culture in Metro Detroit - Wikipedia

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   It became a socializing place for black lesbians and gay men, allowing them to avoid heterosexism and racism in their society. Ellis, who was featured in the documentary Living With Pride, was the oldest known black woman who identified as a lesbian until October 2001, when she died. She lived in Detroit until her death. [17]

6. Detroit Slang - AOL

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   Getty Images Detroit slang is an ever-evolving dictionary of words and phrases with roots in regional Michigan, the Motown music scene, African-American communities and drug culture, among others.

7. Armed with rifles, a ‘mudroots’ Detroit group wards off crime

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   Rather than being threatening, New Era Detroit’s open display of guns — broadly legal in Michigan — is hailed by many people for protecting Black women in dangerous neighborhoods at night.