On the night of December 24, 1971, New York City mayor John V. Lindsay invited the congresswoman from Brooklyn, Shirley Chisholm, to his mansion. Progressive politicians across the country worried about the split in voters if the three potential candidates continued their campaigns for president. Lindsay took it upon himself to convince Chisholm to drop out of the race in order to not draw the black...
The Brewster Housing Project in Detroit, the country's first public housing project, was begun in 1935 as a result of a long campaign by African Americans demanding fair housing. This housing project was created during the time of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency, which is significant because of his New Deal Policy which allocated money to go towards housing. However money was not always evenly...
The two photographs show very conflicting images. One is a flyer distributed by local white residents requesting assistance from other white people outside their neighborhood to help keep black Detroiters from moving into the newly-completed public housing project just north of Hamtramck and on the eastern boundary of Nortown. It encourages people to “Help the White People to keep this district...
Detroit resident James E. Cummings remembers the Detroit race riots that started on the morning of July 23, 1967. The race riots were provoked by a raid of an after-hours bar, known as a "blind pig," on the corner of 12th and Clairmount streets. Cummings recollects not only the violence of the days that followed, in which arson and looting were commonplace and 2,000 buildings were destroyed, but also...