Segregation In The 1950's Detroit

Before the race riot in 1967 Detroit was considered the “model” city. Housing was les segregated and slightly better than housing in New York, chicago, and Philadephia. Under the authority of Mayor Jerome Cavangh, who was credited for his work in race relations, detroit recevied federal funds to fight poverty. Detroit was the only city with two black congressman, and two blacks on the school board. They had poverty programs with a large prosperous middle calss. Looking into the outside, detroit seemed to other cities like the “model” city, but the african americans living in the city thought otherwise. African-Americans were mistreated by merchants and were segregated community of the non-white population. During the 1950's Detroit was swept

In the year 1950 the Twelfth Street neighborhood had nearly no blacks. By 1950 the neighborhood was one-third black, and by 1960 only 3.8 percent of the area was white. African-Americans also suffered when it came to quality of their education. African-Americans demanded for more funds to be put into their schools, and more African-American teachers. Another thing African-Americans had to deal with is housing discrimination. In the 1940's and 1960's white Detroiters built a six-foot high, one-foot wide concrete wall to separate themselves from black neighbors. African-American neighbors also paid higher rent comparted to whites for the same accomodations. In 1960 only 39 percent of African-American owned their own home, as compared to 48 percent of whites in 1967. also housing for African-Americans was furthur worsened by urban renewal. Entire neighborhoods were knocked down to build freeways. African-Americans were also discriminated against in the word industry. In 1960, 7.1 percent of whites compared to 17.4 percent of African-Americans were unemlpoyed. Also African-Americans

Detroit has abandoned homes, schools, churches, fire, police stations and other public service buildings. Since 2005, Detroit has closed more than 100 of its schools. Many former school buildings were poorly secured—and now are open to the elements. The cause of abandonment came to when the schools had to close down because of a decline in enrollment. After the school closed down they were either abdandonded or demolished, a handful of schools were demolished. No other city in the United States has undergone such a dramatic level of population decline, abandonment, and urban decay over the past few decadesWhen it comes to race and discrimination detroit has come along ways from that. Racism isn't fully eliminated towards African-Africans but it isn't present when it comes to housing or jobs. Half a mile long and a foot thick is a concrete wall that was built to separate African-Americans and white families living in the same Detroit neighborhood. More than 70 years later, the wall still stands in Birwood. This wall can be looked at as a reminder of segregation in America and physical embodiment of racial attidues the country has long since tried to forget, but it isnt. Despite its dark history, the community has managed to torun the concrete barrier into a symbol of inspiration and hope. Detroit has come a long ways so its only right to serve the wall as a