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Major Events in Detroit
1960-1970
1960
• Population- 1,620,144 (482,229 were Black)
• The median income in the “ghetto” was $2,640 for a household, compared to the the median family income in Michigan of over $6,000
1961
• Wade McCree Jr. is appointed to the federal district court by President John F. Kennedy.
1962• Jerome P. Cavanagh is elected Mayor of
Detroit. • The Group of Advanced Leaders (GOAL) is
established to pursue equal opportunity in jobs, housing, and education for Blacks.
1963• June 23- The “Walk to Freedom” led by
Rev. King takes place in Detroit.• Malcolm X speaks at Wayne State
University in State Hall, delivering the speech “A Message from the Grass Roots.”
1964
• Damon J. Keith becomes chair of the Michigan Civil Rights Commission.
• Two of the four African Americans teaching full-time at white law schools are at Wayne State University.
1965
• Cavanagh re-elected.• Dr. Charles Wright opens the International
Afro-American Museum in his office on West Grand Boulevard.
• Viola Luizzo is assassinated.
1966
• Detroit Northern High School students organize a demonstration and walk-out.
• Geraldine Bledsoe Ford is elected to Detroit Recorder’s Court.
1967
• Detroit police raid an after hours club, located on 12th
street and Clairmount. A riot breaks out.
• New Detroit Incorporated is formed.
• Michigan State Police swear in the first African American trooper in the state.
• The “Black Bottom”serves as the epicenter for the Detroit riots.
• Reverend Albert Cleage Jr. forms the Black Christian Nationalist Church.
• The Detroit “open-housing” ordinance is blocked.
1968
• Focus Hope is founded.• DRUM is formed to protest continuing
racism in the Dodge plants.• Tom Turner is elected the first African-
American of the local AFL-CIO.
1969
• School board adopts desegregation plan.
• “Black schools for black students”became the cry of many urban students of 1969-1970.•Population- 1,511,482
1970
• Population- 1,511,482