Riots: Detroit: Sojourner Truth Housing Project.

Item

Title

Riots: Detroit: Sojourner Truth Housing Project.

Description

A police officer drags a Black man and woman away during an altercation following the attempted integration of the Sojourner Truth Housing Project in Detroit, Michigan in 1942.

Creator

Detroit News (Firm)

Date

1942-02-28

Identifier

vmc47591_3

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

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