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Jan 28, 2019 · “Black Bottom Street View is a project to visualize Detroit’s historic Black Bottom neighborhood.” The Black Bottom area was acquired by the City of Detroit under eminent domain and razed due to the slum conditions, although Mayor Cobo was well known for his racist sentiments.
Black Bottom was the center of Black life in Detroit, beginning in the early 1900's and continuing through the Great Migration, when Black people moved to the city in large numbers from the American South.
Nov 10, 2020 · The Vanishing Houses of Detroit: A Street View Story. How one Detroit resident is using Google Maps to chronicle the accelerating disappearance of some of that city’s neighborhoods.
- Daniel Herriges
Feb 27, 2017 · In the early 1950s, in one of the most controversial episodes of mass gentrification in Detroit history, the virtually all-white city government bulldozed Black Bottom, the beloved ancestral...
Feb 4, 2015 · Map: Slums, Industrial, and Low Cost Housing in Detroit 1941. This map from the 1941 Annual Report of the Detroit Housing Commission was an omen of things to come. Detroit’s black population was forced (racism, segregation, and redlining) to live in areas deemed “slums.”.
Feb 27, 2019 · In the late summer of 1949, three little boys sat on the curb outside 1231 Riopelle St., in Detroit’s now-vanished Black Bottom neighborhood, taking in what must have been an unusual sight: A city employee was heading slowly down the street, methodically photographing each address.
Photo caption. The streetscape, here and right, shows Macomb street in the early 1950s before the Black Bottom neighborhood was demolished. These images from the Detroit Public Library were in an exhibition about the neighborhood and can be viewed via the Black Bottom digital archive.
