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- But as much as Detroit changed the world, African Americans changed Detroit. Henry Ford, James Packard and the auto industry may have turned Detroit from making cigars, stoves and railroad boxcars into building automobiles. But African Americans made Detroit a center for Black progress in civil rights, business and entertainment.
www.newdetroit.org/a-mighty-long-way-how-black-people-moved-in-out-and-around-detroit/A Mighty Long Way: How Black People Moved In ... - New Detroit
From 2000 to circa 2023, the African-American population declined by 295,000. In 2010, 82.2% of the people living in Detroit were black, and it was the large American city with the highest percentage of black people.
Black people, in all of these eras, built churches, opened schools, started businesses, established institutions, made music, created art and other forms of culture, that helped to make Detroit a world-class city.
The city’s Black residents became teachers, city attorneys, and firefighters. High wages, comprehensive health insurance plans, and pensions from these roles provided a foundation for the Black middle class. In 1973, Coleman Young was elected as mayor, despite not receiving the majority of white votes.
Former Black Bottom residents moved to sections of the city where Blacks were wel-comed, such as neighboring communities to the east and west, where the African-American middle class had lived since the 1920s.
Sep 6, 2017 · Boyd arrived in Detroit — as did so many of the city’s residents — as part of the Great Migration of African-Americans to the North. They remade the city.
The Birwood wall, in Detroit’s Eight Mile-Wyoming neighborhood, was built in 1941 to separate Black and white residents. The consequences continue today.
Jun 6, 2017 · Boyd reveals how Black Detroiters were prominent in the city’s historic, groundbreaking union movement and—when given an opportunity—were among the tireless workers who made the automobile industry the center of American industry.
