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The project actively documents and researches the earliest Puerto Rican and Mexican immigrants that came to Pontiac in the 1940s and 1920s respectively. They maintain a growing library of newspaper clippings, personal photographs, and audio and video recordings, as well as acquisitions from the defunct Pontiac Latin Affairs Office.
Padilla was born in Puerto Rico and moved to Pontiac in 1953. [4] He secured a job delivering mail for the school district of the city of Pontiac. During this time there was a bombing 10 school buses by the Ku Klux Klan during which he and seven others (Loren Spangler, Mordica J. Barefoot, W. K. Skelton, Wilbur Johnson, George Jones, Charles Spain, and Norman Brower) entered buses of their own ...
Pontiac Hispanic History Preservation Project; S. Sphinx Organization This page was last edited on 17 August 2014, at 03:10 (UTC). Text ...
Hispanic workers accounted for 30% of those employed in the construction industry in 2020, the latest data available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed. However only 14.3% were ...
Pontiac — the county seat of Oakland County, in the Metro Detroit region of Michigan ... Pontiac fever; Pontiac Hispanic History Preservation Project;
Erich Murphy, Pontiac Daily Leader. January 30, 2024 at 5:08 AM. ... An informational presentation will be held at 6 p.m. on Feb. 6, at Spoon River Outreach Center, 2500 E. Jackson St. Workshops ...
Pontiac had the fifth largest black population, with 31,416 people. In 2002 the Michigan city with the highest percentage of black residents was Highland Park, with 93% of its population being black. [40] There are approximately 14,000 African immigrants living in the Metro Detroit area. [41]
Meet Gout Gout, the 16-year-old Australian sprinter who recorded the fourth-fastest time by an Australian in the 100-meter race on Friday, Dec. 6. Gout, largely touted as the next Usain Bolt ...