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Indiana gave freedom to blacks in the state who had been held as slaves in the territory prior to Indiana's state constitutional ban on slavery. 1830: North Carolina v. Mann: Supreme Court of North Carolina: Slaveowners were ruled to have absolute authority over their slaves and could not be found guilty of committing violence against them ...
Location of Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit [5] Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit in 1710. When the French came to present-day Michigan, they had slaves and encouraged native people to trade enslaved people. [2] Most of slaves in present-day Michigan resided in Detroit or at the trading post at the Straits of Mackinac, later on Mackinac Island. [6]
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A panel of federal judges ordered redrawn several Detroit-area state legislative maps drawn by Michigan's independent redistricting commission.
Milliken v. Bradley, 418 U.S. 717 (1974), was a significant United States Supreme Court case dealing with the planned desegregation busing of public school students across district lines among 53 school districts in metropolitan Detroit. [1]
The L.A. County district attorney's office will pay $5 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought by the head of a tiny Michigan software company that became the focus of a bungled 2022 ...
A three-judge panel could decide whether Michigan's redistricting commission violated federal voting rights requirements in drawing Detroit districts. Trial kicks off in voting rights lawsuit ...
By the 1940s and 1950s, Conant Gardens was relatively well-populated. The residents were primarily Black businesspeople, lawyers, ministers, and teachers. [11] In 1950, in terms of all neighborhoods with over 500 black people, the median income of black families and unrelated individuals of the tracts 603 and 604, respectively, were the highest in Detroit; the tracts correspond to Conant Gardens.