Riots: Detroit: Sojourner Truth Housing Project.
Item
Title
Riots: Detroit: Sojourner Truth Housing Project.
Description
A bloodied Black man is forcibly led away from home by uniformed police officers with nightsticks during a 1942 altercation at the Sojourner Truth Housing Project in Detroit, Michigan.
Creator
Detroit News (Firm)
Date
1942-02-28
Identifier
vmc77705
Publisher
Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University.
Relation
reformatted digital
Rights
When this material is shared, credit shall read: Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University
Source
Detroit News Photograph Collection (UAV002691)
Subject
African Americans | Desegregation Detroit (Mich.) -- Riot, 1942 | Detroit--economic conditions | Detroit--race relations | Detroit--social conditions | Discrimination in housing--Michigan | World War, 1939-1945