Antonio Medina-Rivera

Antonio Medina-Rivera, PhD, Contributing Writer

Antonio and Rose Ruggiero

July 2015
During the 1950s and 1960s, W. 69th Street, north of Detroit, was mostly an Italian neighborhood. Right after WWII, a new wave of Italian immigrants came to the U.S. escaping from the horrors of poverty and the desolation that brought the end of...