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The Detroit Police Department at the time was 93% white, [2] [3] of whom 45% working in black neighborhoods were considered to be "extremely anti-Negro" and an additional 34% were "prejudiced". [4] The riot began after police raided a black-owned business that hosted a " blind pig " (illegal bar), during a party to celebrate the safe return of ...
City Title Beginning End Frequency Call numbers Remarks Adrian: Afro-American Journal and Directory: 1895 [1]: 1895 [1]: May have only published one issue. [1]Ann Arbor
He was the Editorial Page Editor and a columnist for the Detroit Free Press from 2009 to 2017. [8] Henderson has hosted the daily talk show "Detroit Today" on WDET since 2015, and he hosts the weekly talk show "American Black Journal" on Detroit Public Television and co-hosts the news show "MiWeek" on Detroit Public Television.
Black and Latino workers, who make up a relatively small fraction of the workforce, were killed on the job at disproportionate rates. Of the 524 workplace homicides recorded in 2022, 175 victims ...
At the Piquette Avenue Plant, which opened 120 years ago in 1904, Ford and his employees planned and built the first versions of the Model T. Because the vehicles were made by hand, workers only ...
Detroit: 1931-09-16: 3: Gang hit on three Chicago gunmen by members of The Purple Gang [2] Ford Hunger March: Dearborn: 1932: 5: Confrontation between unemployed auto workers and Dearborn police and Ford security, 5 workers shot to death, more than 60 injured [2] 1943 Detroit race riot: Detroit: 1943-06: 34: Riots among black and white ...
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, there was a “significant rise" in the Black middle class nationwide, particularly in Detroit and other metro areas, said Andre Perry, a senior fellow at ...
Lowell Edwin Amos (January 4, 1943 – January 5, 2022) was an American convicted murderer whose mother and three wives all died under suspicious circumstances. [1] He was convicted in 1996 of murdering his third wife, Roberta Mowery Amos, and was the subject of a 2006 Lifetime Network made-for-TV movie called Black Widower.