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The Detroit Eight Mile Wall, also referred to as Detroit's Wailing Wall, Berlin Wall or The Birwood Wall, is a one-foot-thick (0.30 m), six-foot-high (1.8 m) separation wall that stretches about 1 ⁄ 2 mile (0.80 km) in length. 1 foot (0.30 m) is buried in the ground and the remaining 5 feet (1.5 m) is visible to the community.
The Eight Mile-Wyoming area historically represented an empowering area for Black home development and ownership in the 1920s and 1930s. Horace White, a leading Detroit minister and the first black member of the Detroit Housing Commission (DHC), states it represented an important place of black settlement "because it was their one opportunity, as they saw it, to own their own homes and rear ...
As a strikingly controversial project in 1941, Sojourner Truth Project set precedents for Detroit housing project policy through the next decade. Created by the Detroit Housing Commission (DHC) and United States Housing Authority (USHA), the proposed 200 units would alleviate housing shortages caused by the wartime climate of World War II.
A quarter-century ago, the Hudson's department store came down. A new skyscraper is going up in its place. Hudson's department store in Detroit was imploded 25 years ago
Despite surviving a pandemic, other Detroit retail store owners also had a reckoning. In early 2022, Hugh, the design housewares, accessories and furniture shop in Midtown, closed .
The Birwood Wall is a six-foot-high (1.8 m) separation wall that was constructed in 1941 to physically separate Black and White homeowners on the sole basis of race. 11: Boston-Edison Historic District: Boston-Edison Historic District: September 5, 1975 : Roughly bounded by Edison St., Woodward and Linwood Aves. and Glynn Ct.
Orville Liscum Hubbard (April 2, 1903 – December 16, 1982) was an American politician who served as the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, from 1942 to 1978.Hubbard was an effective administrator who served 15 consecutive terms while being nationally known as an outspoken segregationist who sought to keep Dearborn free of the perceived social and political ills of neighboring Detroit.
For more than 80 years, Morgan State University students walking down Hillen Road near the school’s entrance saw a massive red brick wall. The 'spite wall,' built by white racists in 1940s ...