Contents [hide]
1 Beginnings
2 American control
2.1 First incorporation
2.2 Woodward plan
2.3 City incorporation
2.4 War of 1812
3 A city emerges
3.1 Civil War era
3.2 Rise of industry and commerce
3.3 Immigrants in the 19th century
3.4 Hazen Pingree
4 20th century
4.1 Henry Ford and the automobile industry
4.2 Progressive movement
4.3 Gilded Age
4.4 Immigrants in the 20th century
4.5 Local politics
4.6 Women in the 20th century
4.7 Great Depression
4.7.1 Labor unions
4.8 World War II and the "Arsenal of Democracy"
5 Postwar era
6 Civil rights and the Great Society
6.1 Milliken v. Bradley
7 1970s and 1980s
7.1 Crime
8 Metropolitan region
9 21st century
10 Timeline
11 Keys to the city
12 See also
13 Notes
14 References
15 Further reading
15.1 Ethnic and social history
15.2 Primary sources
15.3 Historic books
16 External links