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Jun 7, 2017 · Thirty vivid, oversize black-and-white photos from the Library of Congress show Detroit in the 1940s. Full-screen scenes show vintage vehicles, fashions, hairstyles, the Crowley-Milner department store, Cunningham’s drugs, a streetcar, Chrysler’s tank assembly workers, tense integration of the Sojourner Truth Homes federal housing project ...
Nov 15, 2011 · The oldest benevolent society in Detroit, the Ladies’ Protestant Orphan Association, has its origins in 1818, when a number of women from prominent Detroit families met at the home of Mrs. Benjamin Larned and organized the Ladies Society of the City of Detroit.
Jul 2, 2020 · And in 1871, the Supreme Court ruled in their favor, ordering Detroit’s school board to abolish its segregation tactics. Fannie’s ability to keep her job as a teacher with the Detroit school board after the Supreme Court ruling is a testament to her professional excellence.
Mar 24, 2021 · Board, a Detroit teacher worked to desegregate schools. While teaching has long been considered a “feminine” job, with 76% of teachers being female in 2019, it hasn’t always been open to women of color. Not until the mid-1800s when Detroiter Fannie Richards changed education in Michigan forever.
Fannie M. Richards, the first black teacher and the first kindergarten teacher in Detroit, became a proponent for education while working against its policies of segregation. From an early age, Richards realized the necessity of an education and the fight it would take for her to gain it.
Guyton Elementary auditorium in Dec 2020. Photo (©) by Helmut Ziewers (www.ziewersphotography.com) of HistoricDetroit.org.
Jun 1, 2017 · In 1872, Richards taught the city’s first kindergarten class at the newly integrated Everett Elementary School. Along with other women from Detroit’s Second Baptist Church, Richards established the Phillis Wheatley Home for Colored Ladies to shelter the elderly poor.
