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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 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]
Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Michigan (Discovering the Peoples of Michigan). Michigan State University Press, May 2, 2012. ISBN 0870138855, 9780870138850. Mayer, Albert. Ethnic groups in Detroit, 1951. Wayne University Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 1951. Content re-posted to: Feinstein, Otto. Ethnic Communities of Greater Detroit.
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 ...
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