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The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street Riot, and the Detroit Uprising, was the bloodiest of the urban riots in the United States during the "long, hot summer of 1967". [ 3] Composed mainly of confrontations between black residents and the Detroit Police Department, it began in the early morning hours of Sunday July 23, 1967, in ...
Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America (The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies). University of California Press, August 1, 2006. ISBN 0520249909, 9780520249905. Hunt, Darnell and Ana-Christina Ramón (editors). Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities. NYU Press, April 19, 2010.
Detroit’s challenges are complex and rooted in its Rust Belt history. Once the global center of the automotive industry, Detroit was the fourth-largest city in the U.S. in the 1920s. Its ...
Membership (2022) 16,000. Website. linksinc .org. The Links is an American, invitation-only, social and service organization of prominent black women in the United States. Founded in 1946, it is the largest nationwide organization of black women in the United States. Members include Kamala Harris, Marian Wright Edelman, and the late Betty Shabazz .
The Detroit Study Club is a Black women's literary organization formed in 1898 by African American women in Detroit, Michigan, who were dedicated to individual intellectual achievement and Black community social betterment. [1] The Club emerged in the 1890s around the same time as numerous other Black women's clubs across the country. [2]
Danny J. Bakewell Sr., photographed at the Los Angeles Times in El Segundo on Nov. 8. It was the tail end of the Great Migration when Danny J. Bakewell Sr. left New Orleans for Los Angeles in 1967.
The Crips are a Black American street gang that was formed in Los Angeles in the 1960s. Much like their rivals, the Bloods, they are known for their violence and are also involved in large-scale drug trafficking including crack cocaine. [6] [7] The Crips have spread outside of Los Angeles, establishing chapters across the nation and even in ...
The first club chapter was founded by Ken Thomas, a Chicago police officer, in 1993 [8] [9] or 1994. [2] The National Association of Buffalo Soldiers/Troopers Motorcycle Clubs (NABSTMC) was formed c. 1999. [2] The organization was officially created at the 1999 National Round-Up.