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Detroit's Sojourner Truth Housing Riot of 1942: Prelude to the Race Riot of 1943

Detroit's Sojourner Truth Housing Riot of 1942: Prelude to the Race Riot of 1943

Van Dusen, Gerald

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Series: American Heritage

CriminologyGeneral World HistoryRegional: Midwest

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ISBN10: 146714696X
ISBN13: 9781467146968
Publisher: History Press
Published: Aug 24 2020
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

During World War II, no American city suffered a worse housing shortage than Detroit, and no one suffered that shortage more than the city's African American citizens.

In 1941, the federal government began constructing the Sojourner Truth Housing Project in northeast Detroit to house 200 black war production workers and their families. Almost immediately, whites in the neighborhood vehemently protested. On February 28, 1942, a confrontation between black tenants and white protesters erupted in a riot that sent at least 40 to the hospital and more than 220 to jail. This confrontation was the precursor to the bloodiest race riot of the war just sixteen months later.

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