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Hosting an NBA game. Grosse Pointe High School hosted game 1 of the NBA's Western Divisional Semi-finals vs the Detroit Pistons and Minneapolis Lakers on March 12, 1960. The Pistons were forced to play at the high school because nobody booked Olympia Stadium for the playoffs. The game was a good one with the Lakers winning 113–112.
The sermons and speeches of Martin Luther King Jr., comprise an extensive catalog of American writing and oratory – some of which are internationally well-known, while others remain unheralded and await rediscovery. Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent African-American clergyman, a leader in the civil rights movement and a Nobel Peace Prize ...
On a hot summer day in 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators calling for civil rights joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Grosse Pointe Public Library is a public library system serving the Grosse Pointe area of Wayne County, Michigan . The Carolyn and Ted Ewald Memorial Branch Library in Grosse Pointe Park was scheduled to open in 2004. [1] The 15,000 square feet (1,400 m 2) branch was originally scheduled to open in October of that year, but delays moved the ...
Poetry helps build resilience into your dream. “I have a dream.”. You have heard the line. But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s ...
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Grosse Pointe Public School was the subject of a video posted by Click On Detroit Local 4, a Detroit TV station, that had gone viral. The video showed a teacher who had recently resigned giving a speech at board meeting, exasperated at the incompetence of the elected board members, having made terrible decisions in regards to the COVID-19 ...
The library opened to the public in 1953. The building served as the main branch of the Grosse Pointe Library through the rest of the century. In 2007, the library board decided that the building was obsolete, and it should be demolished and replaced with new construction. However, there was both local and international opposition to the decision.