I remember when they were the 4th largest in the country. Then the voters opted for ‘change’.
Actually, the decline can be traced to the Feds putting the black Sojourner Truth housing project in a white neighborhood (February 28, 1942), followed by the June riots. Downhill from there.
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.
This is the first I have ever heard of that. My mom was born in Detroit in 1917. My dad moved there to work in 1929. I don't ever recall them mentioning those events. My mom moved out to the suburb of Plymouth in 1983 after my father died. It's too late to ask now. Mom died last year. If I can remember to, I'll have to ask a couple of aunts if they have any recollections.
I was in grade school during the '67 riots and half way through high school when they started talking about busing kids.
I just read the quickie version of the riots....of course, it was the whites...and of course they threw in the “historical” abuse by whites against black women children....what a crock..
Downhill from where? Nowheresville?
There was an influx of blacks migrating from the south in order to man the production assembly lines in the automotive plants at that time and housing was needed. That was the only available land at that time that was available for housing...........
"Downhill from there"? Not hardly, the blacks who migrated to Detroit for the auto industry jobs eventually were able to purchase houses in their respective neighborhoods and became productive members of society along with the Italians, the Poles, the Irish, and the other immigrants who came to Detroit for a better life.