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The Hungarian people and Hungarian Americans had immigrated to Metro Detroit in the 20th Century. Historically they populated Delray in Detroit but moved to the Downriver area in the 1960s. There had been four historic waves of Hungarian immigration to Detroit.〔Tutag, p. (65 ).〕 ==History== In the late 1890s the Hungarians began to populate Detroit. They settled Delray in Southwest Detroit.〔Woodford, p. (186 ).〕 In 1898 the Michigan Malleable Iron Company began operations in Delray. Hungarian immigrants moved to Delray from cities including Cleveland Ohio; South Bend, Indiana; and Toledo, Ohio in order to get better working conditions and better wages.〔Beynon, "Crime and Custom of the Hungarians of Detroit," p. 755.〕 On 14 December 1904 the American Hungarian Reformed Church in Allen Park, MI was organised.〔http://www.ahrchurch.org/history.html www.ahrchurch.org/history.html〕 In 1905 a Hungarian Catholic church opened in Delray. The current Holy Cross Hungarian Catholic Church building opened by 1925. The Hungarians became one of the largest groups to settle Detroit in the early 20th Century. The Delray-Springwells area served as the "Little Hungary" of Detroit and Michigan's Hungarian culture was centered in that community.〔 The first wave of Hungarian refugees came to the U.S. in order to escape the Austro-Hungarian Empire's political issues.〔Collum and Krueger, p. (177 ).〕 After World War I a second wave of Hungarian refugees, who escaped due to religious and political reasons, arrived.〔 The Hungarians became refugees because several territories had been separated from the Hungarian homeland.〔 They selected Detroit because the automobile plants paid high wages. Many of the Hungarians in the second wave had intended to return to Hungary. However ''Detroit's Historic Places of Worship'' stated that "strong community ties and the relative betterment of daily life kept them in America."〔 Some of those who came in this wave had previously worked in coal mines in Pennsylvania.〔 As the number of Hungarians in Delray increased, a new church of the Holy Cross Hungarian Catholic Church opened in 1925.〔"(Church anniversary celebration planned )." ''The Detroit News''. August 30, 2000. ID det8660656. Retrieved on November 24, 2013.〕 In 1935 Doanne Erdmann Beynon, author of "Crime and Custom of the Hungarians of Detroit", wrote that Detroit "has never been a "first port of entry" to any considerable number of Hungarian immigrants."〔Beynon, "Crime and Custom of the Hungarians of Detroit," p. 756.〕 Hungarians coming to Detroit had lived in other U.S. cities before coming to Detroit and Beynon wrote that they usually "have become acculturated, at least partially, to Hungarian-American life prior to their migration to Detroit."〔 Beynon wrote that the immigrants had lived in a "rather homogenous" society in small communities "which are least affected by modern industrial civilization" and that "their lives had been moulded and controlled by the traditional folk culture."〔 Another wave of Hungarians appeared after World War II ended.〔 In 1951 there were about 55,000 ethnic Hungarians in Metro Detroit.〔Mayer, p. (25 ). "HUNGARIANS There are approximately 55,000 people of Hungarian extraction -within the Metropolitan Area of Detroit. The first members of this group arrived in Detroit before 1900, and the peak immigration to the city was in the period 1901 to()"〕 Another wave of Hungarians, those against the Communist forces,〔 escaped the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, causing more to arrive in Delray. The construction of Interstate 75 in the mid-1960s destroyed large parts of Delray and divided the community into two pieces. Middle and working class Hungarians moved to ofDetroit's downriver suburbs Allen Park, Lincoln Park, Melvindale, and Riverview.〔 Some Hungarians also moved to Taylor.〔"(Popular band plays soulful music, Hungarian style )." ''The Detroit News''. August 21, 2002. Retrieved on December 3, 2013. ID: det12771002. "()opened in 1965, the ethnic group began moving to Allen Park and Taylor."〕 The Holy Cross parish school closed.〔 These suburbanites then commuted to their jobs in Detroit along the new expressways. As of the 1990 U.S. Census there were 7,712 speakers of the Hungarian language at home in the State of Michigan. This declined to 4,851 in the 2000 U.S. Census. Miklós Kontra, the author of the "Hungarian" entry in ''The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia'', wrote that the decline in this number and similar numbers in the American Midwest illustrates "the rapid assimilation of Hungarian Americans."〔Kontra, p. (333 ).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of the Hungarian Americans in Metro Detroit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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