Riot: Detroit: Sojourner Truth Housing Project; Street scenes.

Riot: Detroit: Sojourner Truth Housing Project; Street scenes.

African Americans | Desegregation Detroit (Mich.) -- Riot, 1942 | Detroit--economic conditions | Detroit--race relations | Detroit--social conditions | Discrimination in housing--Michigan | World War, 1939-1945

Detroit Police attempt to disperse a crowd of white men, some armed with bats, from the area surrounding the Sojourner Truth Housing Project. The men wanted to keep their neighborhood segregated from the Black families moving into an adjacent war housing project.

Detroit News (Firm)

Detroit News Photograph Collection (UAV002691)

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University.

1942-02-28

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