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In Detroit, activists pushed for more representation in local government, including the white-dominated police force, and for equal justice in housing and employment. At the same time, African Americans were proud of their progress in Detroit. In 1965 the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History was founded in the city.
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History (The Wright) is a museum of African-American history and culture, located in Detroit, Michigan.Located in the city's Midtown Cultural Center, The Wright is one of the world's oldest and largest independent African-American museums, holding the world's largest permanent collection of African-American culture. [1]
Despite the lack of housing, black people continued to move to Detroit, and by 1960, almost 30% of the population of Detroit was black. [9] The white population of the city peaked in 1950 and then steadily declined due to white flight and net emigration through 2010. [15]
The General Motors Theater at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History will receive a $5 million revamp […] The post Detroit to give African-American history museum $1.8M for ...
The history of African-American entrepreneurship in Detroit dates back to the early 20th century. The Great Migration brought many African Americans from the rural South to urban centers like ...
During the early years of Detroit, the African-American population was relatively small. However, the Second Baptist Church (1857; rebuilt 1914) was founded with an African-American congregation in the 1830s; the church played an instrumental role in the Underground Railroad, due to Detroit's proximity to Canada. The auto boom of the 20th ...
In the book “Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford," Beth Tompkins Bates writes that there were over 50 different nationalities of employees working at the Highland Park plant by 1914.
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit. As of 2002 72% of Michigan's metropolitan black population resides in the Detroit PMSA. That year, Wayne County had 864,627 black people, making up 42% of its total residents and 85% of the total number of black people in the PMSA.