Editing Hamtramck, Michigan (section)

==History==
[[File:Frank Jaworski Sausage branch in Hamtramck, Michigan (c. 1974).jpg|thumb|upright|A sausage shop in Hamtramck in 1974]]
Hamtramck was originally settled by German farmers, but Polish immigrants moved into the area when the [[Dodge Brothers]] [[Dodge Main|plant]] opened in 1914.<ref name="hamtramck.us">{{cite web |url=http://www.hamtramck.us/about/pages/index.php |title=City of Hamtramck, Michigan - Official WebSite |website=www.hamtramck.us |access-date=January 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080210003527/http://www.hamtramck.us/about/pages/index.php |archive-date=February 10, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Polish people|Poles]] previously made up a large proportion of the population. It is sometimes confused with [[Poletown]], a traditional Polish neighborhood, which used to lie mostly in the city of Detroit and includes a small part of Hamtramck. As of the 2010 American Community Survey, 14.5% of Hamtramck's population is of [[Poland|Polish]] origin<ref>{{cite web |title=U.S. Census website |url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=February 28, 2012}}</ref> whereas in 1970 it was 90% Polish.<ref>Seidner, Stanley S. (1976). [http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED167674&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED167674 ''In Quest of a Cultural Identity: An Inquiry for the Polish Community'']. New York: IUME, Teachers College, Columbia University. ISBN ERIC ED167674.</ref>

Circa the 1920s and 1930s,<!--time period of the Prohibition--> people had bars active and publicly made them visible, which was against [[Prohibition (United States)|Prohibition]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Bailey|first=Sarah Pulliam|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/for-the-first-majority-muslim-us-city-residents-tense-about-its-future/2015/11/21/45d0ea96-8a24-11e5-be39-0034bb576eee_story.html|title=In the first majority-Muslim U.S. city, residents tense about its future|newspaper=[[Washington Post]]|date=December 17, 2019|accessdate=June 15, 2023}}</ref>

Over the past thirty years, a large number of [[Muslims|Muslim]] immigrants from the [[Middle East]] (especially Yemen), [[South Asia]], and the [[Balkans]] have moved to the city. As of the 2010 [[American Community Survey]], the city's foreign born population stood at 41.1%,<ref>https://www.census.gov {{nonspecific|date=August 2022}}</ref> making it Michigan's most internationally diverse city (''see more at Demographics below''). The population was 43,355 in the 1950 Census and 18,372 in 1990.

Hamtramck was primarily farmland, although the Detroit Stove Works employed 1,300 workers to manufacture stoves. In 1901, part of the township incorporated as a village to gain more control over the settlement's affairs, and by 1922 the village was reincorporated as a city to fend off annexation attempts by the neighboring city of Detroit.{{sfn|Kowalski|2003|page=14}} By the mid-1920s, 78% of the residents of Hamtramck owned their own houses or were buying their houses.<ref name=Vinyardp184>Vinyard, p. [https://archive.org/details/forfaithfortunee0000viny/page/n203 <!-- quote="Even though Hamtramck Poles made more use of the public school system". --> 184].</ref> Around that time, the factory workers made up 85% of Hamtramck's heads of households. Of those factory workers, about 50% were categorized as not skilled workers.<ref name=Vinyardp183184>Vinyard, p. [https://archive.org/details/forfaithfortunee0000viny/page/n202 <!-- quote="Families in Hamtramck often made calculted use of both". --> 183]-[https://archive.org/details/forfaithfortunee0000viny/page/n203 184].</ref> In 1910, the newly founded Dodge Main assembly plant created jobs for thousands of workers and led to additional millions of dollars in the city.{{sfn|Kowalski|2003|page=109}} Dodge Main quickly expanded and became important to Hamtramck. Before the construction of Dodge Main, Hamtramck was a largely rural town. The establishment of the Dodge Main assembly plant led to a large influx of Polish immigrants who pushed out the incumbent German politicians. It was after this that Hamtramck was considered a Polish-American town.{{sfn|Kowalski|2003}}

By the end of the 20th century and the closing of Dodge Main, followed closely by General Motors [[Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly#General Motors|razing]] of key parts of the Polish neighborhoods, the ethnicity of the region quickly shifted from traditionally Polish descendants to new [[Middle Eastern]] and [[South Asia]]n immigrants. By the elections of 2015, the city is suggested to have been the first to elect a Muslim-majority council in the country.<ref name="Warikoo"/><ref name="Buncombe">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/a6727456.html |title=US city of Hamtramck becomes first to elect Muslim-majority council: The city was a traditionally Polish-Catholic enclave of Detroit |first1=Andrew |last1=Buncombe |location=New York |date=9 November 2015 |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |access-date=January 25, 2016}}</ref>

In November 2021, Hamtramck elected a completely [[Muslim-American]] city council and a Muslim mayor, becoming the first municipality in the United States to be governed entirely by Muslim-Americans.<ref name=election_21>{{cite news|last1=Feng |first1=Zhaoyin |title=The US city run by Muslim Americans |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59212355 |newspaper=BBC News |date=November 16, 2021 |access-date=November 17, 2021}}</ref> In June 2023, the city drew scrutiny for its ban of the [[Rainbow flag (LGBT)|rainbow flag]] on city property and perceived homophobia.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|last=Perkins |first=Tom |date=June 17, 2023 |title='A sense of betrayal': liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/17/hamtramck-michigan-muslim-council-lgbtq-pride-flags-banned |access-date=September 19, 2023 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>