(28641) Riots, Housing, Sojourner Truth, Detroit Police, 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

Detroit Police attempt to disperse a crowd of white men, some of whom are armed with bats, from the area surrounding the Sojourner Truth Housing Projects. The men wanted to keep their neighborhood segregated from the African American families who were preparing to move into the adjacent war housing project.