During the Great Migration, starting in 1910 and continuing till the 1970s, many Black citizens in the United States moved north in search of better lives, far away from southern Jim Crow. But, as discussed in one of the earliest blog posts here, while Black Americans found freedom from the…
During the Second World War, the United States became the armory for the allied forces. To facilitate this, factories in the manufacturing industry were retooled to build weapons or other wartime materials. Detroit’s factories were no exception, the city’s well established automotive industries were well suited to the task, and…
America has long struggled to reconcile, or even recognize, many racial issues from its history, the residual effects of de-facto segregation being one of them. To this day, Detroit remains one of the most segregated cities in the US, and in order to learn how this injustice came to be,…
