(28636) Riots, Housing, Sojourner Truth, State Troops, 1942

Posted June 15th, 2012 by eclemens

African Americans
Desegregation
Detroit (Mich.) -- Riot, 1942
Detroit--economic conditions
Detroit--race relations
Detroit--social conditions
Discrimination in housing--Michigan
Social Forces, Foundations & Change
Urban Affairs
World War, 1939-1945

Michigan State Troops in full dress set up camp in an empty field on Nevada Street across from the Sojourner Truth Housing projects on "moving day." Over 1,400 State and Detroit police and 1,000 Michigan State Troops were brought in to protect the 200 African American families set to move into the war housing projects and Fenkell and Nevada from white neighbors who wished for the area to remain segregated.