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Aerial view of a classification yard and two train ferries on the Detroit River, 1943. During World War II, Detroit became a center of industry, largely due to its innovative roots. The treatment of African Americans during World War II, however, represented the duality between an increase in labor and a decrease in the standard of living.
US Army Detroit Arsenal, 2013. Chrysler's construction effort at the plant in 1941 was one of the fastest on record. [3] The first tanks rumbled out of the plant before its complete construction. [4] During World War II, the Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant built a quarter of the 89,568 tanks produced in the U.S. overall. The plant made M3 Lee tanks ...
The 1943 Detroit race riot took place in Detroit, Michigan, from the evening of June 20 through to the early morning of June 22.It occurred in a period of dramatic population increase and social tensions associated with the military buildup of U.S. participation in World War II, as Detroit's automotive industry was converted to the war effort.
Known as the Selective Service Act of 1917, 24 million men between the ages of 18 and 45 registered to fight. This created many more jobs for African Americans in the city of Detroit as a lot of working men went off to war. 1918 1918 influenza epidemic. WW1 ends; 1919 - Orchestra Hall opens. 1920: Detroit becomes the 4th largest city in America
Augustus Woodward's plan for the city following 1805 fire. Detroit, settled in 1701, is one of the oldest cities in the Midwest. It experienced a disastrous fire in 1805 which nearly destroyed the city, leaving little present-day evidence of old Detroit save a few east-side streets named for early French settlers, their ancestors, and some pear trees which were believed to have been planted by ...
Many Lithuanians also settled in Detroit during the World War II era, especially on the city's Southwest side in the West Vernor area, [191] where the renovated Lithuanian Hall reopened in 2006. [192] [193] While African Americans in 2020 comprised 13.5% of Michigan's population, they made up nearly 77.2% of Detroit's population.
This is the first of two Flashbacks on John Bugas, who led the FBI in Detroit during the 1940s then served as a close aide to Henry Ford II. Part II will run next Sunday, Jan. 28.
After the arrival of Europeans, the area that became the Michigan Territory was first under French and then British control. The first Jesuit mission, in 1668 at Sault Saint Marie, led to the establishment of further outposts at St. Ignace (where a mission began work in 1671) and Detroit, first occupied in 1701 by the garrison of the former Fort de Buade under the leadership of Antoine de La ...