  Stinger4me Member Username: Stinger4me Post Number: 334 Registered: 08-2007 |
Does anybody out there know where this was located? Thanks for the help | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 3548 Registered: 07-2004 |
Around Fenelon and Nevada IIRC | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 3551 Registered: 07-2004 |
4801 Nevada at Fenelon in northern Detroit http://www.detroit1701.org/Soj ourner%20Truth%20Housing%20Pro ject.html | ||
Cub Member Username: Cub Post Number: 1125 Registered: 02-2007 |
They are still there.  | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 3555 Registered: 07-2004 |
They were the site of a terrible row in 1942. Even made LIFE magazine. | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 4495 Registered: 02-2004 |
For sure, when the housing projects were built in the 1940s in the Krainz Woods sub-division. It was for low-income blacks. But lots of white folks who lived over the neighborhoods don't want them in that are so they protested and held segregated signs, but they have lost and 30 years later, white folks moved away to the suburbs replacing the whole neighborhoods with lots of middle to low-income blacks. Two of friends used to live over there before they moved to the lower eastside area. | ||
Rickinatlanta Member Username: Rickinatlanta Post Number: 260 Registered: 07-2006 |
Incredible... | ||
Neilr Member Username: Neilr Post Number: 679 Registered: 06-2005 |
 From Frank Angelo's Yesterday's Detroit, 1974 | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 3557 Registered: 07-2004 |
Yeah, the feds switched plans twice. Naming the project after Sojourner, a famous African-American, didn't stop them from yielding to neighborhood demands that the housing be for whites, not blacks. (In the 1940s, the government built segregated housing projects.) Then, after much protest, they flipped back. | ||
Neilr Member Username: Neilr Post Number: 680 Registered: 06-2005 |
 Two attempts to block the influx of blacks were made before the moves could be completed with thousands of troopers and police on hand. Again, from Frank Angelo's book. | ||
Neilr Member Username: Neilr Post Number: 681 Registered: 06-2005 |
 This group of Detroiters went to Washington, DC to protest the government's handling of the situation. After speaking with Sen. Prentiss Brown they posed at the DC Urban League headquarters. My final picture from Frank Angelo's book. | ||
Cub Member Username: Cub Post Number: 1126 Registered: 02-2007 |
Lol at Rick | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 1966 Registered: 11-2003 |
??? | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 3558 Registered: 07-2004 |
That it is "incredible" that the homes still stand? | ||
Cub Member Username: Cub Post Number: 1127 Registered: 02-2007 |
No, Danny's post is incredible. | ||
Sludgedaddy Member Username: Sludgedaddy Post Number: 292 Registered: 01-2008 |
I don't have much information, but I have heard stories of this time period concerning a right wing racist priest from the St. Louis the King parish near Seven Mile and Mound. From what I have heard, he was a chief instigator of the white demonstrations against the population of the Sojouner Truth Projects. Any one have information to post for the benefit of all? The time period, I guess, would be circa 1940's. | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 1967 Registered: 11-2003 |
Tsk, tsk, Cub. | ||
Pam Member Username: Pam Post Number: 5058 Registered: 11-2005 |
The SJ Homes are mentioned in Thomas Sugrue's new book Sweet Land of Liberty. I think they were also in his previous book The Origins of the Urban Crisis. | ||
Rickinatlanta Member Username: Rickinatlanta Post Number: 261 Registered: 07-2006 |
Thanks Cub... Lewis Black would love Danny. (Message edited by rickinatlanta on February 20, 2009) | ||
Lmichigan Member Username: Lmichigan Post Number: 4157 Registered: 10-2003 |
Lewis Black, who's always close to spontaneously combusting, anyway, would absolutely and physically explode if he were to try and talk to Danny. lol | ||
Fareastsider Member Username: Fareastsider Post Number: 1007 Registered: 08-2006 |
"They were the site of a terrible row in 1942. Even made LIFE magazine." Funny, I was reading a copy of that article at about 3pm when you posted that comment! | ||
Alfie1a Member Username: Alfie1a Post Number: 177 Registered: 10-2007 |
Thanks for yet another history lesson. | ||
Fra_paolo Member Username: Fra_paolo Post Number: 1 Registered: 02-2009 |
Coincidentally, I'm doing an MA project on events leading up to the 1943 riot. Does anyone know if the Detroit Public Library has copies of the Detroit Times for this period? Their microform collection of Times doesn't include the war. |
