https://padlet.com/cjrobby96/5fry8n5ctech Song of Solomon en-us 2017-03-02 17:36:05 UTC 2023-10-17 21:26:00 UTC hello@padlet.com cjrobby96 https://padlet.com/cjrobby96/5fry8n5ctech/wish/157415151
The migration of Southern African Americans to Northern cities began in the early 20th century to seek employment opportunities in rising industrial economy and to escape the dangerous and highly segregated South.  However,  many overestimated the promises the city, and due to lack of education and mechanical skills were unaccustomed to the urban lifestyle, and didn't expect to realize that manufacturers often faced the same challenges and recessions that farmers did in the South.  With this, lower-class Black citizens still dealt with Jim Crow laws, Ku Klux Klan Violence, and most importantly, housing discrimination.  ]]> 2017-03-02 17:40:01 UTC https://padlet.com/cjrobby96/5fry8n5ctech/wish/157415151 cjrobby96 https://padlet.com/cjrobby96/5fry8n5ctech/wish/157423477 The White Flight was a phenomenon that began to occur in Detroit in the late 1930's when middle class white families left the inner city and migrated to suburbs surrounding the city to escape racial integration.  The predominate white population of these suburbs then made it nearly impossible for ethnicities to obtain home ownership by implementing racial discrimination in real-estate businesses, which deemed its practices to be justified under "legal exclusion." These suburbs remained predominantly white until the 1940's, when a Federal Housing Bill was passed through Congress that planned to relocate Black families.  Below is a sign located outside a white suburb, photographed in 1941, protesting the Bill and advertising for white tenants to move in keep the area unintegrated.

]]> 2017-03-02 18:01:24 UTC https://padlet.com/cjrobby96/5fry8n5ctech/wish/157423477 cjrobby96 https://padlet.com/cjrobby96/5fry8n5ctech/wish/157434281 The Detroit Wall is a physical barrier that was constructed in 1940 to separate middle-class white and poorer black homeowners.  The wall stands at 6 feet in height, and extends over a half a mile long down 8 Mile road to Pembroke Avenue in Northern Detroit.  The reason for its construction was to achieve funding requirements for the Federal Housing Administration, who would not offer loans to neighborhoods that were deemed undesirable. (Hint: Not Predominantly White)  The wall was enough to satisfy the FHA, and separated the neighborhoods, and completely segregated the racial population.  The wall is still standing today, serving as a reminder of the city' past of discrimination. 

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