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Ford was the first company to sign a contract with them, again showing the impact that the Ford Motor Company has had throughout Detroit's history. Detroit Tigers baseball team win 1935 World Series defeating the Chicago Cubs 4 games to 2. The season was their 35th since they entered the American League in 1901. It was the first World Series ...
Detroit reached its population peak in the 1950 census at over 1.8 million people, and its population has decreased in each subsequent census. As of the 2010 census, the city has just over 700,000 residents, a total loss of 61% of its 1950 population.
Having Detroit's city leadership in the 1940s and 1950s attribute redevelopment and renovation with destroying "dangerous" parts of the city made black bottom especially vulnerable to displacement. The CPC subsequently failed to provide adequate resources for relocation to the black families whose homes and neighborhoods were destroyed. [ 34 ]
Detroit's population increased from under 500,000 in 1910 to over 1.8 million at the city's peak in 1950, making Detroit the fourth-most populous city in the United States at that time. [9] The population grew largely because of an influx of European immigrants, in addition to the migration of both black and white Americans to Detroit. [10]
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The Detroit Free Press called the removal "the greatest mass evictions in Detroit's history." [86] Groundbreaking on the Douglass Project occurred on May 5 with Mayor Cobo turning the first shovel. [87] February 2 - Ford Motor put 15,000 workers at its Rouge plant on a six-day work week to meet increased demand for its products. [88]
Reuther's Treaty of Detroit was a five-year contract negotiated by trade union president Walter Reuther between the United Auto Workers (UAW) and General Motors in 1950. The UAW reached similar deals with the other members of the Big Three automakers , Ford Motor Company and Chrysler .