Detroit's Lost Poletown
Detroit's Lost Poletown

Author: Brianne Turczynski

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2021-02-08

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1439671974

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Poletown was a once vibrant, ethnically diverse neighborhood in Detroit. In its prime, it had a store on every corner. Its theaters, restaurants and schools thrived, and its churches catered to a multiplicity of denominations. In 1981, General Motors announced plans for a new plant in Detroit and pointed to the 465 acres of Poletown. Using the law of eminent domain with a quick-take clause, the city planned to relocate 4,200 residents within ten months and raze the neighborhood. With unprecedented defiance, the residents fought back in vain. In 2004, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the eminent domain law applied to Poletown was unconstitutional--a ruling that came two decades too late.

For Faith and Fortune
For Faith and Fortune

Author: JoEllen McNergney Vinyard

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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Even before the massive European immigrations of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Detroit had a tradition of Catholicism. Multiple immigrant groups became part of the city and considered it important to educate their daughters as well as their sons within the Church.

A Fifty-year Index to Polish American Studies, 1944-1993
A Fifty-year Index to Polish American Studies, 1944-1993

Author: Casimir J. Grotnik

Publisher: East European Monograph

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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Articles, reviews, and other scholarly material from the archives of the Polish American Historical Association, the world's leading organization dedicated to the study of Polish immigration in the Americas.