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Jun 7, 2017 · Thirty vivid, oversize black-and-white photos from the Library of Congress show Detroit in the 1940s. Full-screen scenes show vintage vehicles, fashions, hairstyles, the Crowley-Milner department store, Cunningham’s drugs, a streetcar, Chrysler’s tank assembly workers, tense integration of the Sojourner Truth Homes federal housing project ...
Sep 13, 2016 · From the 1950s on, white people started leaving Detroit and moving to the suburbs. By 1970, only one-in-three students at Detroit Public Schools was a white kid. And those white kids were concentrated in mostly white schools. Detroit schools were segregated.
- Lester Graham
Detroit Public Library - Photos Exterior. ... Michigan Central Station - Photos Public Tour. ... Sherrill Elementary School - Photos Demolition.
Guyton Elementary auditorium in Dec 2020. Photo (©) by Helmut Ziewers (www.ziewersphotography.com) of HistoricDetroit.org.
Holcomb elementary hallway in 2020. Photo by Helmut Ziewers (www.ziewersphotography.com) of HistoricDetroit.org. The Holcomb kindergarten in 2020. The kindergarten bay window extends into an interior courtyards. The kindergarten is one three classrooms that featured direct courtyard access.
In the late 50's, I went to Katherine B White Elementary school on Charles St. near Bloom St. on the East side of Detroit. It was a big building, built in 1920, divided into two parts, "White school" proper, and "White Special," for kids with various disabilities, cerebral palsy and such.
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As originally constructed, Katherine B. White School was a symmetrically-arranged, “T”-shaped structure facing south onto Charles Street. It is located in Northeast Detroit just east of Hamtramck Township about five miles from the center of downtown Detroit.
