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The National Italian American Foundation estimated that in 1990, Metro Detroit had 280,000 ethnic Italians. [26] As of 2005 the closest remaining large Little Italy near Detroit was Via Italia in Windsor, Ontario , and there was a group of remaining Italian shops and restaurants along Garfield Road in Clinton Township .
Among African Americans who moved to Detroit from the American South before the end of slavery were George and Richard DeBaptiste. They attended classes taught by Rev. Samuel H. Davis, the pastor at the Second Baptist Church in the city. [7] Marcus Dale [8] attended the African Methodist Episcopal church led by Rev. John M. Brown and others. [9]
Detroit: Race Riots, Racial Conflicts, and Efforts to Bridge the Racial Divide is a 2013 non-fiction book by Joe T. Darden and Richard Walter Thomas, published by Michigan State University Press. The book explains how the 1967 Detroit riot affected the city.
Detroit's population increased from under 500,000 in 1910 to over 1.8 million at the city's peak in 1950, making Detroit the fourth-most populous city in the United States at that time. [9] The population grew largely because of an influx of European immigrants, in addition to the migration of both black and white Americans to Detroit. [ 10 ]
People marching by Detroit's Renaissance Center in protest of the sentence of Chin's killers being too light, May 9, 1983. The lenient sentencing of Ebens and Nitz enraged the Asian-American communities in the Detroit area and across the United States, who saw it as a sign of public indifference toward racism directed at Asian-Americans. [8]
Richard Walter Thomas (born April 2, 1939) is a retired African-American professor of Michigan State University known for his work in black issues and race relations. He has published a number of scholarly works, his poetry has been gathered in various anthologies, and he has given a variety of talks, workshops, and interviews on issues of race and race relations.
On July 4, 1986, the Organizing Committee for a National Association of MultiEthnic Americans was formed by representatives of local mixed-race groups, which emerged during the late 1970s and early 1980s. These were the first groups to focus specifically on mixed-race identities.
William E. Cross Jr. (1940 - December 6, 2024) was a theorist and researcher in the field of ethnic identity development, specifically Black identity development. [1] He is best known for his nigrescence model, first detailed in a 1971 publication, and his book, Shades of Black, published in 1991.