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  • Detroit's Sojourner Truth Housing Riot of 1942

    Prelude to the Race Riot of 1943

    by Gerald Van Dusen ...
    Series series American Heritage
    During World War II, no American city suffered a worse housing shortage than Detroit, and no one suffered that shortage more than the city's African American citizens. In 1941, the federal government began constructing the Sojourner Truth Housing Project in northeast Detroit to house 200 black war production workers and their families. Almost immediately, whites in the neighborhood vehemently ... Read more

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  • Detroit's Birwood Wall

    by Gerald Van Dusen ...
    In 1941, a real estate developer in northwest Detroit faced a dilemma. He needed federal financing for white clients purchasing lots in a new subdivision abutting a community of mostly African Americans. When the banks deemed the development too risky because of potential racial tension, the developer proposed a novel solution. He built a six-foot-tall, one-foot-thick concrete barrier extending ... Read more

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