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The Black Autonomy Network Community Organization (BANCO) is a political and social justice coalition working in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The organization was founded in 2003 by Reverend Edward Pinkney, a Baptist minister, to protest the death of Terrance Shurn, an African American man killed during a pursuit by the Benton Harbor Police. [1 ...
Website. bhcity .us. Benton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is 46 miles southwest of Kalamazoo and 71 miles southwest of Grand Rapids. According to the 2020 census, its population was 9,103. [4] It is the smaller, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles –Benton Harbor Metropolitan ...
Jean Klock Park is a historic city park along Lake Michigan in Benton Harbor, Michigan, United States. In 1917, John Nellis Klock and his wife, Carrie, bought a significant stretch of lakeshore including tall dunes and 2,950 feet (900 m) of shoreline from E. K. Warren, donor of Warren Dunes, and deeded the land to the city of Benton Harbor.
April 15, 2009. The House of David (formally The Israelite House of David) is a religious group founded in Benton Harbor, Michigan, in March 1903. [1] It was co-founded by spouses Benjamin Purnell (1861–1927) and Mary Purnell (1862–1953). The Purnells claimed to be the successors to Joanna Southcott (1750–1814), an English woman who had ...
Graffiti on wall in Chicago ghetto. "American ghetto" usually denotes an urban neighborhood with crime, gang violence, and extreme poverty, [2] [3] with a significant number of minority citizens living in it. Their origins are manifold. Historically, violence has been used to intimidate certain demographics into remaining in ghettos. [4]
The Wendell P. and Harriet Rounds Robbins House is a private house located at 680 Pipestone Street in Benton Harbor, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. History. Wendell Phillips Robbins was born in 1849 in Harwich, Massachusetts. He worked as a clerk in a dry goods store for two years; then moved to ...
FIPS code. 26-07400 [1] GNIS feature ID. 1625918 [2] Website. Official website. Benton Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,374.
Wally Weber. Walter J. Weber (February 27, 1903 – April 14, 1984) was an American football player and coach at the University of Michigan. He played halfback and fullback for the Wolverines in 1925 and 1926 on the same teams as Benny Friedman and Bennie Oosterbaan. He later became an assistant football coach at Michigan for 28 years from 1931 ...