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In the beginning of the year 1900 the city's first Greek coffeeshop opened on 40 Macomb Street. There were 250 Greeks in Detroit in 1909. In 1912 persecution of Greeks began, prompting immigration from Greece. The period 1911 to 1917 was the peak immigration period from Greece. In 1914 there were up to 8,000 Greeks in the city.
In 2002 Detroit had 771,966 black residents, making up 81.2% of its population and making it the city with the largest African-American population in Michigan. [40] That year it was also, out of all of the U.S. cities with 100,000 or more people, the city with the second highest percentage of black people. [ 2 ]
The community has the highest percentage of Greek Americans of any city in the U.S. In 1909, there was a pogrom against the Greek population in South Omaha. The events of the early 1920s also provided the stimulus for the first permanent national Greek American religious and civic organizations.
Greektown, Detroit. / 42.33500°N 83.04222°W / 42.33500; -83.04222. Greektown is a commercial and entertainment district in Detroit, Michigan, located just northeast of the heart of downtown, along Monroe Avenue between Brush and St. Antoine streets. It has a station by that name on the city's elevated downtown transit system known as ...
Andrea Dimitry – Greek-American soldier in the War of 1812 fought in the Battle of New Orleans; George Doundoulakis – Greek-American soldier who worked under British Intelligence during World War II and served with the OSS in Thessaly, Greece. Later becoming a physicist, he is known by his twenty-six US patents in the fields of radar ...
Dan Georgakas (Greek: Νταν Γεωργακάς; 1938–2021) was an American anarchist poet and historian, who specialized in oral history and the American labor movement, best known for the publication Detroit: I do mind dying: A study in urban revolution (1975), which documents African-American radical groups in Detroit during the 1960s and 1970s.
Cultural Center Historic District (Detroit) ( ID83003791) Designated CP. November 21, 1983. The Detroit Institute of Arts ( DIA) is a museum institution located in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. It has one of the largest and most significant art collections in the United States. With over 100 galleries, it covers 658,000 square feet (61,100 m 2 ...
June 21, 2024 at 2:02 AM. Helen Bomas will celebrate her 95th birthday at the end of June. She is the oldest Greek American living in Marion. She arrived in Marion in the early 1950s when the city ...