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A Grand Rapids City Commission meeting was held on the evening of April 12 and more than 100 protesters organized by the Royal Black Panther Party Grand Rapids marched outside, with chants from the demonstrations being heard in the Council Chambers nine-stories up. [28] [58] [63]
Michigan National Guard deployed in Grand Rapids on June 1. Thousands of demonstrators marched in downtown Grand Rapids on Saturday, May 30. [24] [25] The protesters initially gathered at Rosa Parks Circle for a silent protest while other demonstrators moved to the headquarters of the Grand Rapids Police Department where interactions ...
The Jim Crow Museum houses over 10,000 artifacts; the majority of the objects were created between the 1870s and the 1960s. The largest portion of the museum's holdings is anti-black memorabilia, for example, mammy candles, Nellie fishing lures, picaninny ashtrays, sambo masks, and lawn jockeys. The museum also displays Jim Crow memorabilia ...
2011 Grand Rapids shootings: Grand Rapids: 2011-07-07: 8: Spree killing: Murders of Jourdan Bobbish and Jacob Kudla: Detroit: 2012-07: 2: Two white teenagers tortured and murdered in Detroit by two black males: 2016 Kalamazoo shootings: Kalamazoo: 2016-02-20: 6: Shootings at an apartment complex, car dealership and restaurant: St. Joseph ...
Francis Henry Crittall was the son of Francis Berrington Crittall and Fanny Godfrey. Crittall, in 1849, bought the Bank Street ironmongery in Braintree. After gaining work experience in Birmingham and Chester , Francis Henry took over the family business following his father's death, and in 1884 began to manufacture metal-framed windows.
The Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids As of the 2010 United States census , [ 22 ] there were 602,622 people living in the county. 76.1% were non-Hispanic White , 10.2% Black or African American , 2.4% Asian , 0.7% Native American , 4.5% of some other race and 2.6% of two or more races . 9.7% were Hispanic or Latino (of any race).
Ottawa Hills High School is a high school in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Ottawa Hills is one of five high schools of the Grand Rapids Public Schools. The school colors are orange and black, and the athletic teams are referred to as the Bengals. They were previously referred to as the Indians.
Rev. Lyman S. Parks (1917 – November 4, 2009) was the mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan from 1971 to 1976. He was the first African-American to serve in the position. [1] He was also the first African-American elected to the Grand Rapids City Commission in 1968.