If those residents in 1942 had been lawful, who knows how things would have developed? MI is always trying for a liberal fix, but it never works.
If the Feds hadn’t lied about the housing project, things might have ended up differently for the city. Also throw in the Packard strike in 1942, when the company put blacks in among the whites on the assembly line; before that, folks had had separate work areas.
Of course, if Eleanor Roosevelt had stuck to white lovers, who knows what might have happened.
It is a damn crime how Detroit went from a beautiful, major world city, to an empty dump in 60 years.
I was there just 3 years ago. The photos people see online are actually KIND.