I took a sociology course at Henry Ford College and had a very knowledgeable professor . He took our class on a bus to Detroit and showed and explained to all of why what happened to Detroit happened . It's much easier to blame the blacks for the downfall of Detroit than become educated on what really happened . This needs to be shown to every student in history .
My great grandfather owned 2 pool rooms and bar on Hastings street. My grandfather told me a ton of stories about Hasting street when he was a child growing up. He said at that time you thought you where in Harlem with all the nice cars and nice establishments that lit up at night. He also said if you couldn't make money back then you were not trying at all.
Your grandfather was a treasure. I would love to hear more about his stories. Hastings Street was famous for the activity there. Thank you for sharing your story,
Yeah, my family migrated from Crenshaw, MS to Black Bottom. They hobo the train. My grandmother was 10 and her sitter was in her teens. My grandfather was the leader. He got a job in the factory and my grandmother was a housekeeper.I even went to Miller as a kid in the 60's. That area is gentrified now.
I come from a different land, I wonder about the term „Black history month“ - a whole month? Do you have also then White history month, brown history and Asian history month, right?
Just think of all the great live music that you heard on those streets. Think of the great store's to shop in. I wish that I had the chance to further experience and explore the city in that way. But Black Bottom was long gone before I was born in Detroit. Growing up as a young teenager, I would board a DSR bus and ride it to it's destination end, and ride it back again where I first boarded to sightsee other areas of Detroit. Many time's getting off and walking the avenues of the many stores and businesses that lined the streets of Detroit neighborhoods. Detroit was a fun and exciting place to explore as a kid, and young teen. Can't do that anymore. My parents met each other at the Graystone. Wish that I could visit the Graystone where my parents first met and danced together for their first time.
I’m sorry this happened. It looks like the people had a lot to take pride in and there was a lot of unity. The music that came out of places like this alone was enough to preserve the history for generations to come, now it’s just gone... My family hadn’t even come to the country yet but it looks like the old neighborhoods in New York my grandparents were from and took so much pride in.
Black Bottom can be created again with willing talented people to invest. Our people are too distracted and rely on the government. The government in the state of Michigan is not for us. As a black man I've learned the games in this state. But am determined to invest in the city with my own money. We as people have got to wake up, this system especially in Detroit,Michigan is designed for us to fail. From the school system to everything else. They know what they are doing, which is why this state thrives off of the criminal Justice system!
I grew up in Detroit back in 1956 .I left my mother's funeral - which was when I was last there in 1996 .I hear a lot of the public radio and it was interesting as he was a retired FBI Agent .He stated that he primary mission in dealing with Detroit ( as well as other large cities ) was to make sure that certain areas maintain a constant flow - supply of illegal drugs into the city .This ( as people already know ) is what is known as keeping people down . Same as excessive liquor stores in area .
Detroits Irish neighborhood/Cork Town actually got trisected by the freeway system. Thus you have Corktown, North Corktown, and an eastern part of Corktown that was redeveloped by the MGM casino a few years ago. Many communities not only in Detroit but across this country have been interrupted by redevelopments, roads, freeways, and interstates. A large swath of what used to be an Italian neighborhood about a mile north of downtown Cincinnati where the old Crosely Field was where the Reds once played was mowed down for I-75. So welcome to the club.
My Aunt's neighborhood was taken same way as Bottom/Paradise for the widening of Davison in the 60s/70s and it most definitely was a White neighborhood.
My cousin lived on 38th street but he died earlier, but I and my with and son will vote Democratic and there are some Republicans will be voting Biden as will the 3 of us!
@granscare, that’s just wonderful the Democrats have ran and ruined that town for decades and you just want more of it by voting for another old Democrat for president??? No wonder the black communities stay the same, you don’t learn from the past !!! By the way the Democrats are the party of the KKK the Jim Crowe laws etc....good lord
Early Nation of Islam also got it's start on 3402 Hasting Street @ the Castle Theater where Elijah Poole later to be known as the Hon. Elijah Muhammad joined in 1931.
The Lebanese have been moving to Michigan since the 1800's. They're a little famous for working on Great Lakes freighters. I'm sure there are better examples of Islamic immigrants than a political organization.
@@purplespeckledappleeater8738 ISLAM MAY NOT HAVE BLOSSOMED IN AMERICA IF NOT FOR A "POLITICAL" ORGANIZATION. MUSLIM'S SHOULD SHOW THEIR GRATITUDE FOR THE SACRIFICES MADE BY THOSE EARLY "BLACK MUSLIMS' THAT MADE IT EASIER FOR MUSLIMS TO PRACTICE THEIR FAITH TODAY.
Just a wonderful documentary Of a time gone to soon, just demolished as if it didn't exists!! Thank You Thank You!! I didn't live during that time but, have had the pleasure of speaking to so many people who did. It makes me sad, so sad that that "Mecca' of pride is gone.
This is by far the Best Piece Of Journalism ever Produced on The Black Bottom History. I urge you to continue to report on Detroit History thank you very much for sharing this story !However, please keep in mind that White communities was also destroyed the same way in other cities to build Hwys.
Tis tru... BUT opportunities were still available to them if their pocketbook could afford it. Whereas Blacks (financial wherewithal or not) were not allowed to move anywhere their money could take them. The housing market/realtors even went as far as to ink on deeds not to sell to "colored" folk. White citizens never had those barriers in place to contend with!
@@TeamTuc Excellent point! Those opportunities did not extend to the black community. Once a community is dismantled and rebuilding limitations are compounded by policies promoting discrimination, has long-term devastation impacting generations later! The discrimination of the housing market is another layer combined with the installation of the freeway system. There's some dark history concerning the housing discrimination against the black community in Detroit.
Wealthy Black neighborhoods all over America - Past, present and both: Oak Bluffs: www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a6668/oak-bluffs-african-american-community/ Olympia Fields: www.olympia-fields.com/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=77 Sag Harbor: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sag_Harbor_Hills,_Azurest,_and_Ninevah_Beach_Subdivisions_Historic_District www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/t-magazine/sag-harbor.amp.html ruclips.net/video/QoniFMtSXcw/видео.html ruclips.net/video/lWwPy8i9gfg/видео.html Highland Beach: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Beach,_Maryland www.highlandbeachmd.org/?mobile=false www.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/greathomesanddestinations/04Highland.html whatsupmag.com/news/highland-beach-chesapeake-bay-maryland-s-first-african-american-incorporated-town/ Sweet Auburn: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Auburn 'The Black Beverly Hills' - Ladera Heights, Baldwin Hills, View Park and Winslow Hills: www.google.com/amp/s/abc7.com/amp/black-beverly-hills-baldwin-ladera-heights-real-estate/7222331 www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hp-neighborhood-spotlight-ladera-heights-20180707-story.html www.latimes.com/local/la-me-adv-view-park-20150719-story.html www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hp-neighborhood-spotlight-baldwin-hills-crenshaw-20170429-story.html DeSoto: www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/affluent-african-americans-flocking-to-desoto/132513/%3famp Prince George County: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_George%27s_County,_Maryland Bronzeville: www.urbanjuncture.com/community www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/September-2015/Margo-Jefferson-Negroland/ Idlewild: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idlewild,_Michigan Sugar Hill, Jacksonville, FL: www.thejaxsonmag.com/article/americas-lost-towns-of-black-affluence/ www.thejaxsonmag.com/article/vintage-photos-sugar-hill/ Sugar Hill, NYC: above110.com/harlem-nyc/sugar-hill-nyc/ www.google.com/amp/s/ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/sugar-hill-once-harlems-most-glamorous-enclave/amp/ Durham, NC: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wall_Street_(Durham,_North_Carolina) There are many more but these are a good start...
Motown was THE most important export from Detroit. Cars could be made anywhere, Detroit's motor industry did not put that city "on the map" but by 1963 EVERYONE AROUND THE WORLD knew about Detroit thanks to Berry Gordy Jr.'s Motown Record Corporation.
That the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Neal Detroit was the Automobile Capitol of the world at one time MO in MOTOWN stands for MOTOR. Barry's Flight to CA was brought on by Democratic Politics and Weaponized Drugs used to "Win Equal Rights" and destruction of the MAFIA brought Detroit to third world status.
Some of the most historical and influential black folks came from that area and attended Miller High School, which would become my junior high in the mid 1970s. The one guy most responsible for Martin Luther King's Jr birthday becoming a national holiday is from that area (note 2 Detroiters were instrumental in that feat) and attended Miller.
Another story demonstrating that lawlessness is not tolerated in America. Sometimes, it seems as if justice takes too long. It does take time. In America, we try to protect the innocent. I like the attitude of these producers -- check out the facts for yourself. Thank your posting. More people need to see this brief video.
The home I used to live in , in the 4700 block of East Forest ( which is now mowed over ) between Gratiot ,Warren and East Grand Blvd was always thick with traffic going to Downtown Detroit .Mainly -Gratiot and Warren crammed with cars trying to make it to and from during rush hours - seemed like they used them as the freeway .I had never seen so many cars .
Detroit has strong history and a lot of famous people got their start here so being bourn and raised in Detroit I can feel proud to be a native of this great and historical city show you right.........
I was hoping for a good history lesson of the 1943 riot that took place in Black Bottom, Paradise Valley, and Brush Park. I feel like it was purposely left off, but it's an important part of the history of that area. That area was torn apart that after that.
My father grew up over off of Hastings back in the '30's, and then moved to E. Philadelphia, just east of Oakland Ave. I remember him telling me stories about Paradise Valley and Black Bottom back in the day. What a terrible thing our government did in destroying this and many other black communities and strongholds where blacks were able to raise their families, identify with their own culture, and be self-sufficient. White bigotry was behind this effort, unfortunately, as they'd rather have blacks stuck on welfare and handouts, and, thus, dependent on "the man." Sad.
@@dudearon8130 Sorry if that’s how you interpreted what I said. No, it isn’t all that’s wrong with Detroit, but it’s one of the primary catalysts, buddy.
people whom I'd worked with and who had spent time living in Detroit praised for what by the 80s & 90s when there had become a mecca in musicality...Motown largesse drew all sorts of cash-strapped musicians, like the place'd never seen before 🍸
Very true- mismanagement of city funds- Quami Fitzpatrick & all other corrupt mayors 1 I grew up in west side- joy road & Evergreen- went to Cody high 53-57- first graduating class
I grew up in Detroit and never new this history. Reading White Rage by Carol Anderson bought me here. Specially her section on white people's derailment of Black reconstruction efforts and an engaging section where she details the plight of Dr. Ossain Sweet
This is fascinating i work in the area. I never wouldve imagined it was awesome 70 years ago. The area is forest park the dequinder cut and eastern market im guessing now.
My brother said to me Why do you think they always put freeways in the blackk community? I thought it was for a good thing. He said basically no it was if they wanted to shut black community down all they had to do was closed down the all the freeways.
@@jasonkaramo5477 oh yes! Effectively segregated forever chicago when they tore down at least 15 miles of wentworth avenue to build the congress/Dan Ryan expressway......my sincere heart goes out to the great Detroit....were rooting for yall.
Instead of looking for rebuilding the black neighborhood economy, we chose, Education, Civil Rights and being friends with these people who put us in that situation.
Building interstate freeways through productive city neighborhoods is a complete and utter disaster. America squandered trillions of dollars of wealth for short term "economic growth". "Bankrupt Detroit is only a few decades ahead of every other American city and town, that has adapted stroads and car dependent suburbia." - Strong Towns
Renee Lowe yes but no it wasn't, it was first a German jewish neighborhood, and Black people, then Eastern European jewish people settled there. It was always integrated until the 1930s. Then it became primarily black people until the city ran that damn freeway through it all under the idiotic urban renewal so called improvement plan which sadly happened in many cities. I was born in Detroit. In San Francisco where I live, this city did similar things in the Fillmore district such as tarring down beautiful Victorian housing and displacing a whole vibrant black community. Sickening. BTW Black Bottom was named by the French for its rich top soil.
I am doing some family research. My father lived there on Anton or Antone street. I think there is a hospital now there. Was this a part of the Black Bottom?
Racism and Fear of Black Economic Independence was the reason why Black Bottom was destroyed.. The I-75 freeway could've been laid on Connor or on Hamilton instead of right through a thriving community.. Corktown is nearby and it's ironic that it wasn't considered...
I wish y'all didn't have music playing as people talk because I'm hard of hearing.. My family lived in the Black Bottom my Grandma worked at GM and my Grandpa was an independent man my Uncle's had stories for days they loved the Black Bottom and Paradise valley
I enjoy seeing the old vehicles, my cousin Bob recently died, and I am still here as is my wife and son and we shall vote Biden and Harris and the Ilinois Democratic people running for re-election and we shall vote Democratic!! If my dear GOP followers of Trump, Vladimir Putin will be in charge and Putin in Moscow will be in charge and Trump will be his "usefull idiot" Another guy said if a Democratic Party puts up a tomato can, he will vote for that tomato can !!!
OMG i can't watch it because i can't hear the talking because of THE DAMN MUSIC. Video people: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PUT MUSIC BEHIND EVERY CONVERSATION!!!
I find it ironic that the city of Detroit would title this video with both grammatical and punctuation errors. I mean it wouldn't even pass a middle school English teachers forgiveness. I suppose we've learned not to expect too much
Whites lost the Poletown neighborhood through Eminent Domain. They fought and lost against Coleman Young and General Motors. What did they do next? they moved on and built elsewhere. They took their resources and moved on.
True, but so did those displaced black people. The only difference is that the Polish, and other white minorities, could easily assimilate into mainstream white America and ,thus, could reap the benefits of no red-lining, getting bank loans, etc. Got to look a bit deeper into it to gain a better understanding.
Um no... Many people when they fled couldn't sell their homes. That's why so many houses are abandoned. They did not take their resources because the immigrant Catholic working class neighborhoods that got destroyed didn't have the same resources that the Anglo communities had. That's why the wealthy communities stayed and Catholics slowly saved up and left over the next 30 years. Most of the wealth from the Midwest that was created through the Michigan lumber industry that turned Michigan into a moonscape among other industries that extracted natural resources or got cannibalized in favour the auto industry. A lot of industry left the Rust Belt for the American South, which was done intentionally by the Federal government to spread out all the industry of the country away from the Midwest. The government thought everyone should have a piece of the pie instead of a centralized industrial heartland that was vulnerable to nuclear attack so the Rust Belt and all of the factory towns that fed the industry of the Midwest one by one economically collapsed. That is how the South and Western states got their manufacturing. Mexico too. Money from the Midwest went to build up California and the West Coast. The thing is, in 50 years people managed to slowly move away, which is still happening today. The satellite cities grew into suburbs and suburbs grew into new cities until SE Michigan/Metro Detroit grew like a giant ring around the city of Detroit. In a few decades, the farmland between Flint and Oakland county will be settled and Metro Detroit will stretch all the way to Flint. That process started in 1967. In the 1950's, Pontiac and Troy were small agricultural communities. Children in Troy had to choose to go to high school in Pontiac or Detroit. Look at the population census records if you don't believe me. Coleman Young created a racist political machine that stole from and oppressed African Americans. Coleman Young literally made a speech where he told white people to get out of Detroit if they didn't like his corruption and parking lots. That political machine was destroyed when the FBI moved into the McNamara building because they were spending too much money flying to and from Detroit. That is why Detroit before COVID hit was suffering a small period of revival in the downtown area.
So this is why card games were so prominent? Lol fr fr ik it’s a culture thing but all of the hoods be having rent parties when the card party is on the flo
Very interesting bit of midwest/Detroit history. But after 1970s, global forces intervened, even after the big federal hiway project. The loss of the auto industry jobs was a major factor. Many blacks could get those factory/assembly-line jobs right out of high school, protected by auto unions. Also, many white, middle-classes moved to the suburbs, esp. after the urban riots. Big D. has no other industries to replace the loss--. Not like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Philly, which rely on big medicine. Why don't blacks go into farming, or play soccer, or start up shops? --Too much welfare?
Why don't you just come to town an open up your plantation, you racist troll! Many whites moved to the suburbs via major assistance from the G.I. Bill that were denied to black servicemen. Also for poin tof information, the white flight was taking place almost 2 decades prior to the 67 Riots... (which was also the boiling point from police mistreatment and cramming blacks into that restricted area when Black Bottom was strategically slated for "Urban Renewal") Contrary to lazy and bigoted reporting there are a lot black business existing and being started in and around the city but of course, that won't flow with this regions bashing narrative. Yes, the city/region is heavy handed in the auto industry but there are still needs to be filled continually in the skill trades arena, to which many individuals are taking advantage of it. Why don't blacks go into farming (have you checked the way black farmers are treated versus white farmers nationwide?) Play soccer (surely you jest). You can't be from Detroit labeling us the "The Big D" ...LOL . That is Dallas moniker (Nimrod). The City of Detroit is known as "The D" period! Whew....some people!
leaving detroit during the riots of 1967 the lost 50% of white people started on 8mile road my Grandma lived on 9 mile road when left that day we saw tanks coming over the bridge
"Eastern European immigrants - they were Germans, they were Irish". You couldn't make this up. It's funny how even educated Americans don't know geography.
never mind that it was almost exclusively Polish .....notwithstanding, they inferred that it was some level of racism that forced the city to destroy it (actually also inferring the Eisenhauer the Republican was to blame): the area was a crime ridden dump that was impossible to police and unsafe to those that lived there. Revisionism anyone?
Jewish population??? Italians?? Germans??> Irish??? Are you kidding me? Who put this thing together? This was almost EXCLUSIVELY a POLISH neighborhood from 1870 - 1940....Drive down Canfield: there are 4 Polish churches still there. One would think that it would be reasonable to acknowledge who built this part of the city even as a passing mention. You went far to give credit to everyoe except its builder. Do your research a little more carefully before misinforming people.
Thieving from the 1920s until the 50s than the Democrats came and all down hill since in the start of the 60s. The video said this not me, I just added the fact of the politics.
Pistongreg Dud he also cause the astronomical illiteracy rate among blacks and the single parent homes, higher drop out rates? Take some personal responsibly you all will be better off. Quit believing the lies the media and democrats tell you.
Both my grandparents lived & grew up in black bottom!
What an awesome history we have!
I took a sociology course at Henry Ford College and had a very knowledgeable professor . He took our class on a bus to Detroit and showed and explained to all of why what happened to Detroit happened . It's much easier to blame the blacks for the downfall of Detroit than become educated on what really happened . This needs to be shown to every student in history .
Yeah agreed it was not the black population. It was Democrat rule that condemned the city.
@@macoooos9204you are incorrect.
It was the Democrats that destroyed Detroit. They used corruption, unions & poor blacks to attack the foundations that Detroit were built upon.
My great grandfather owned 2 pool rooms and bar on Hastings street. My grandfather told me a ton of stories about Hasting street when he was a child growing up. He said at that time you thought you where in Harlem with all the nice cars and nice establishments that lit up at night. He also said if you couldn't make money back then you were not trying at all.
Your grandfather was a treasure. I would love to hear more about his stories. Hastings Street was famous for the activity there. Thank you for sharing your story,
@Boone Yusuf shut up
@Karter Edward shut up
Wow! What amazing history.
Please write your stories down or record them on tape or video while you still can. The next generation need your info.
Yeah, my family migrated from Crenshaw, MS to Black Bottom. They hobo the train. My grandmother was 10 and her sitter was in her teens. My grandfather was the leader. He got a job in the factory and my grandmother was a housekeeper.I even went to Miller as a kid in the 60's. That area is gentrified now.
Yes it's such a peaceful place. I have a dream that soon all of the USA will become as nice as Detroit and Chicago and Memphis.....😅
ABC Detroit should play these, at least in February black history month!!! I know that area very well, This is wonderful to watch...
I come from a different land, I wonder about the term „Black history month“ - a whole month?
Do you have also then White history month, brown history and Asian history month, right?
fabulous video and marvelous music - most enjoyable!!
Just think of all the great live music that you heard on those streets. Think of the great store's to shop in. I wish that I had the chance to further experience and explore the city in that way. But Black Bottom was long gone before I was born in Detroit. Growing up as a young teenager, I would board a DSR bus and ride it to it's destination end, and ride it back again where I first boarded to sightsee other areas of Detroit. Many time's getting off and walking the avenues of the many stores and businesses that lined the streets of Detroit neighborhoods. Detroit was a fun and exciting place to explore as a kid, and young teen. Can't do that anymore.
My parents met each other at the Graystone. Wish that I could visit the Graystone where my parents first met and danced together for their first time.
Nice to learn about the culture of Black Bottom. I have cousins in Detroit!! seeing this film brought back fond memories.
WOW THANK YOU FOR THIS DOCUMENTARY 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
This was so accurate and so refreshing to see a detailed message about The real Detroit. Black Bottom.
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I’m sorry this happened. It looks like the people had a lot to take pride in and there was a lot of unity. The music that came out of places like this alone was enough to preserve the history for generations to come, now it’s just gone...
My family hadn’t even come to the country yet but it looks like the old neighborhoods in New York my grandparents were from and took so much pride in.
PUNTA DEL ESTE...URUGUAY
My mom was born in black bottom but they moved out when she became school aged.
Great documentary. Need to see more of the past of the D.
This should be a must study for all kids. Great for everybody.
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Black Bottom can be created again with willing talented people to invest. Our people are too distracted and rely on the government. The government in the state of Michigan is not for us. As a black man I've learned the games in this state. But am determined to invest in the city with my own money. We as people have got to wake up, this system especially in Detroit,Michigan is designed for us to fail. From the school system to everything else. They know what they are doing, which is why this state thrives off of the criminal Justice system!
Well hopefully Trump's tariffs on China will help. Force businessmen to move their factories back to America.
www.dailydetroit.com/2019/10/18/i-375-in-detroit-planned-to-become-a-boulevard-by-2024/
I grew up in Detroit back in 1956 .I left my mother's funeral - which was when I was last there in 1996 .I hear a lot of the public radio and it was interesting as he was a retired FBI Agent .He stated that he primary mission in dealing with Detroit ( as well as other large cities ) was to make sure that certain areas maintain a constant flow - supply of illegal drugs into the city .This ( as people already know ) is what is known as keeping people down . Same as excessive liquor stores in area .
You are 100% right
Google The Melanics
This is a classy reporting ty
THIS WAS AMAZING TO THE CORE!!.... This is what I needed to see.
BARILOCHE...SAN MARTÍN DE LOS ANDES...VILLA LA ANGOSTURA...USHUAIA...ARGENTINA
Detroits Irish neighborhood/Cork Town actually got trisected by the freeway system. Thus you have Corktown, North Corktown, and an eastern part of Corktown that was redeveloped by the MGM casino a few years ago. Many communities not only in Detroit but across this country have been interrupted by redevelopments, roads, freeways, and interstates. A large swath of what used to be an Italian neighborhood about a mile north of downtown Cincinnati where the old Crosely Field was where the Reds once played was mowed down for I-75. So welcome to the club.
My Aunt's neighborhood was taken same way as Bottom/Paradise for the widening of Davison in the 60s/70s and it most definitely was a White neighborhood.
Great stuff. I love Detroit. This is a fascinating and educational vid, Thanks!
My cousin lived on 38th street but he died earlier, but I and my with and son will vote Democratic and there are some Republicans will be voting Biden as will the 3 of us!
@granscare, that’s just wonderful the Democrats have ran and ruined that town for decades and you just want more of it by voting for another old Democrat for president??? No wonder the black communities stay the same, you don’t learn from the past !!! By the way the Democrats are the party of the KKK the Jim Crowe laws etc....good lord
@@granskare TRELEW...PUERTO MADRYN...RAWSON...ARGENTINA
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@@cindyreynolds4045 Where you live sweetie? Where you from sweetie? You must live in Detroit, like I do, to be so incredibly "informed".
Early Nation of Islam also got it's start on 3402 Hasting Street @ the Castle Theater where Elijah Poole later to be known as the Hon. Elijah Muhammad joined in 1931.
Kwame Muhammad
And got kicked out after Malcom X was slain. Glad they’re reopening the case.
Yes sir
@@kelvinburns4597 SHANGRILA...ATLANTIDA...PIRIAPOLIS...URUGUAY
The Lebanese have been moving to Michigan since the 1800's. They're a little famous for working on Great Lakes freighters. I'm sure there are better examples of Islamic immigrants than a political organization.
@@purplespeckledappleeater8738 ISLAM MAY NOT HAVE BLOSSOMED IN AMERICA IF NOT FOR A "POLITICAL" ORGANIZATION. MUSLIM'S SHOULD SHOW THEIR GRATITUDE FOR THE SACRIFICES MADE BY THOSE EARLY "BLACK MUSLIMS' THAT MADE IT EASIER FOR MUSLIMS TO PRACTICE THEIR FAITH TODAY.
Just a wonderful documentary Of a time gone to soon, just demolished as if it didn't exists!! Thank You Thank You!! I didn't live during that time but, have had the pleasure of speaking to so many people who did. It makes me sad, so sad that that "Mecca' of pride is gone.
White Democrats have been oppressing blacks for far too long
@phat madame what side of town are u from?
It got bulldozered because it was a rat infested slum full of junkies & drunks!!!
This is by far the Best Piece Of Journalism ever Produced on The Black Bottom History. I urge you to continue to report on Detroit History thank you very much for sharing this story !However, please keep in mind that White communities was also destroyed the same way in other cities to build Hwys.
Tis tru... BUT opportunities were still available to them if their pocketbook could afford it. Whereas Blacks (financial wherewithal or not) were not allowed to move anywhere their money could take them. The housing market/realtors even went as far as to ink on deeds not to sell to "colored" folk.
White citizens never had those barriers in place to contend with!
@@TeamTuc Excellent point! Those opportunities did not extend to the black community. Once a community is dismantled and rebuilding limitations are compounded by policies promoting discrimination, has long-term devastation impacting generations later! The discrimination of the housing market is another layer combined with the installation of the freeway system. There's some dark history concerning the housing discrimination against the black community in Detroit.
Okay with those barriers in place how did Black Bottom /Paradise Valley come into existence in the FIRSTt place???!!!
It ALSO is a Fantastic documentary...well done and VERYgood quality content
@@jdoggs08753 Because those were the areas African Americans were allowed to live and work. Many other places in the city they were not.
Proud to have been BORN and RAISED in BLACK BOTTOM I LOVE Detroit Michigan
Wish this was in history books
www.amazon.com/Before-Motown-History-Detroit-1920-60/dp/0472067656?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-d-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=0472067656
Fr though. The public education system is a joke
Wealthy Black neighborhoods all over America - Past, present and both:
Oak Bluffs: www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a6668/oak-bluffs-african-american-community/
Olympia Fields: www.olympia-fields.com/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=77
Sag Harbor: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sag_Harbor_Hills,_Azurest,_and_Ninevah_Beach_Subdivisions_Historic_District
www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/t-magazine/sag-harbor.amp.html
ruclips.net/video/QoniFMtSXcw/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/lWwPy8i9gfg/видео.html
Highland Beach: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Beach,_Maryland
www.highlandbeachmd.org/?mobile=false
www.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/greathomesanddestinations/04Highland.html
whatsupmag.com/news/highland-beach-chesapeake-bay-maryland-s-first-african-american-incorporated-town/
Sweet Auburn: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Auburn
'The Black Beverly Hills' - Ladera Heights, Baldwin Hills, View Park and Winslow Hills: www.google.com/amp/s/abc7.com/amp/black-beverly-hills-baldwin-ladera-heights-real-estate/7222331
www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hp-neighborhood-spotlight-ladera-heights-20180707-story.html
www.latimes.com/local/la-me-adv-view-park-20150719-story.html
www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hp-neighborhood-spotlight-baldwin-hills-crenshaw-20170429-story.html
DeSoto: www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/affluent-african-americans-flocking-to-desoto/132513/%3famp
Prince George County: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_George%27s_County,_Maryland
Bronzeville: www.urbanjuncture.com/community
www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/September-2015/Margo-Jefferson-Negroland/
Idlewild: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idlewild,_Michigan
Sugar Hill, Jacksonville, FL: www.thejaxsonmag.com/article/americas-lost-towns-of-black-affluence/
www.thejaxsonmag.com/article/vintage-photos-sugar-hill/
Sugar Hill, NYC: above110.com/harlem-nyc/sugar-hill-nyc/
www.google.com/amp/s/ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/sugar-hill-once-harlems-most-glamorous-enclave/amp/
Durham, NC: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wall_Street_(Durham,_North_Carolina)
There are many more but these are a good start...
@F Sanders thank you I've been looking for examples like this. I want to study the history of wealthy black neighborhoods
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Motown was THE most important export from Detroit. Cars could be made anywhere, Detroit's motor industry did not put that city "on the map" but by 1963 EVERYONE AROUND THE WORLD knew about Detroit thanks to Berry Gordy Jr.'s Motown Record Corporation.
That the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Neal Detroit was the Automobile Capitol of the world at one time MO in MOTOWN stands for MOTOR. Barry's Flight to CA was brought on by Democratic Politics and Weaponized Drugs used to "Win Equal Rights" and destruction of the MAFIA brought Detroit to third world status.
WRONG, without Cars, no money, no nothing...and no Berry Gordy.
Attacking the mafia did screw some things up.
Exactly, there would be no Berry Gordy without the auto industry. He worked at Ford and that job gave him the money to start his label.
Neil Forbes
Maybe Americans know about this, but outside of America Detroit is knows as an Automotive Capital of the World.
My grandparents had a car wash and washrack at Maple and Chestnut.
Some of the most historical and influential black folks came from that area and attended Miller High School, which would become my junior high in the mid 1970s.
The one guy most responsible for Martin Luther King's Jr birthday becoming a national holiday is from that area (note 2 Detroiters were instrumental in that feat) and attended Miller.
Amazing documentary, good info here. Thank you.
I cannot imagine all the problems that black people went through back in the day.
Another story demonstrating that lawlessness is not tolerated in America. Sometimes, it seems as if justice takes too long. It does take time. In America, we try to protect the innocent. I like the attitude of these producers -- check out the facts for yourself.
Thank your posting. More people need to see this brief video.
can u imagine Detroit without that highway
It would be great for the city overall.
The home I used to live in , in the 4700 block of East Forest ( which is now mowed over ) between Gratiot ,Warren and East Grand Blvd was always thick with traffic going to Downtown Detroit .Mainly -Gratiot and Warren crammed with cars trying to make it to and from during rush hours - seemed like they used them as the freeway .I had never seen so many cars .
Yes, the state of Michigan should follow through on plans to remove 375.
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Can you imagine Detroit with out blacks? The city would have not been destroyed
I love my city wish the love was the same love today as then.
Detroit has strong history and a lot of famous people got their start here so being bourn and raised in Detroit I can feel proud to be a native of this great and historical city show you right.........
Robert Moses and Eisenhower’s Interstates destroyed so many Black and ethnic communities. Same thing happened in NY.
Amazing to watch
Hopefully the rest of the country will become more like Detroit and Chicago and even Memphis TN.........such peaceful areas.
Sarcastic much.lol
Sounds like Gerald McBride. BTW, Mayor Louis Miriani went to prison for a year and later moved north to the burbs. Henry Ford II center @17:55
My Late Father jammed...on the Drums . who ever would let him
I was hoping for a good history lesson of the 1943 riot that took place in Black Bottom, Paradise Valley, and Brush Park. I feel like it was purposely left off, but it's an important part of the history of that area. That area was torn apart that after that.
It's so good to asked the real questions, and know the answers that none of these so called historians are willing to cover!
beautiful video I learned a lot
excellent Mr. Dink
#LongLiveDetroit
My father grew up over off of Hastings back in the '30's, and then moved to E. Philadelphia, just east of Oakland Ave. I remember him telling me stories about Paradise Valley and Black Bottom back in the day. What a terrible thing our government did in destroying this and many other black communities and strongholds where blacks were able to raise their families, identify with their own culture, and be self-sufficient. White bigotry was behind this effort, unfortunately, as they'd rather have blacks stuck on welfare and handouts, and, thus, dependent on "the man." Sad.
Yeah, sure buddy! white people are what's wrong with Detroit, huh?
@@dudearon8130 Sorry if that’s how you interpreted what I said. No, it isn’t all that’s wrong with Detroit, but it’s one of the primary catalysts, buddy.
Democrats
@@MrEatThatAs Yep. That’s why I’m going to hold my nose and vote Republican for the foreseeable future. Too much wokeness.
Thanks so much for posting. (Col. 3:17)
people whom I'd worked with and who had spent time living in Detroit praised for what by the 80s & 90s when there had become a mecca in musicality...Motown largesse drew all sorts of cash-strapped musicians, like the place'd never seen before 🍸
Very true- mismanagement of city funds- Quami Fitzpatrick & all other corrupt mayors 1 I grew up in west side- joy road & Evergreen- went to Cody high 53-57- first graduating class
I grew up in Detroit and never new this history. Reading White Rage by Carol Anderson bought me here. Specially her section on white people's derailment of Black reconstruction efforts and an engaging section where she details the plight of Dr. Ossain Sweet
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I think I just saw Howard Hewitt near the end.
I was there when he performed in Harmonie Park!
AMAZING INFO!!!
This is fascinating i work in the area. I never wouldve imagined it was awesome 70 years ago. The area is forest park the dequinder cut and eastern market im guessing now.
My first reference was by Minister Farrakhan. He said Master Fard Muhammad came to black bottom!
Heard a lot about it.
My brother said to me Why do you think they always put freeways in the blackk community? I thought it was for a good thing. He said basically no it was if they wanted to shut black community down all they had to do was closed down the all the freeways.
I read that Dwight Eisenhower passed a lot of laws to send freeways straight through our communities.
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@@jasonkaramo5477 oh yes! Effectively segregated forever chicago when they tore down at least 15 miles of wentworth avenue to build the congress/Dan Ryan expressway......my sincere heart goes out to the great Detroit....were rooting for yall.
Apex bar! 😎
John Lee Hookers first public appearance!
Then he left for Chicago.
And never came back.
Like everyone else...
Is any part of Black Bottom still around in 2018?
2018 Detroit wants to put farms back again! History recycle 😒
Not just repeats but it's the right move to make. Black people want and need for directly from the earth. Fuck that other seedless and GMO GARBAGE
Good idea, IMO!
Wow to run I-95 in Miami they had to break up Overtown the cultural Black center of Miami in Dade County
Instead of looking for rebuilding the black neighborhood economy, we chose, Education, Civil Rights and being friends with these people who put us in that situation.
why you vote for Democrats is beyond me
Much information.
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Building interstate freeways through productive city neighborhoods is a complete and utter disaster. America squandered trillions of dollars of wealth for short term "economic growth".
"Bankrupt Detroit is only a few decades ahead of every other American city and town, that has adapted stroads and car dependent suburbia." - Strong Towns
Detroit bring back Dr. Anderson!
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Will never understand why people can burn a city and still live in it. Just a hell hole.
Cold hearted destroyed the Black Bottom community and put a freeway. The village unity, culture and economics is gone.
Eminent Domain. Yes however, Colman Young Payed the city back when he destroyed Poletown..... horrible
Young destroyed a LOT of things in Detroit...
Coleman Young would bath in the Sewage treatment ponds.
Lived on Brush Street in the early 50s
Wow I would always here older people speak of the black bottom in conversation and assumed it was a slum or something negative
Renee Lowe. hear#
Renee Lowe yes but no it wasn't, it was first a German jewish neighborhood, and Black people, then Eastern European jewish people settled there. It was always integrated until the 1930s. Then it became primarily black people until the city ran that damn freeway through it all under the idiotic urban renewal so called improvement plan which sadly happened in many cities. I was born in Detroit. In San Francisco where I live, this city did similar things in the Fillmore district such as tarring down beautiful Victorian housing and displacing a whole vibrant black community. Sickening. BTW Black Bottom was named by the French for its rich top soil.
@@shellybellysf: good info.
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It makes you want to think......was integration a good thing?
I am doing some family research. My father lived there on Anton or Antone street. I think there is a hospital now there. Was this a part of the Black Bottom?
They sure know how to destroy a city
Racism and Fear of Black Economic Independence was the reason why Black Bottom was destroyed.. The I-75 freeway could've been laid on Connor or on Hamilton instead of right through a thriving community.. Corktown is nearby and it's ironic that it wasn't considered...
democrats have always oppressed blacks
I wish y'all didn't have music playing as people talk because I'm hard of hearing.. My family lived in the Black Bottom my Grandma worked at GM and my Grandpa was an independent man my Uncle's had stories for days they loved the Black Bottom and Paradise valley
cannot help but think that it was all a result of self destruction
The Nation of Islam started in Black bottom... The Savior walked these very streets....
I enjoy seeing the old vehicles, my cousin Bob recently died, and I am still here as is my wife and son and we shall vote Biden and Harris and the Ilinois Democratic people running for re-election and we shall vote Democratic!! If my dear GOP followers of Trump, Vladimir Putin will be in charge and Putin in Moscow will be in charge and Trump will be his "usefull idiot" Another guy said if a Democratic Party puts up a tomato can, he will vote for that tomato can !!!
OMG i can't watch it because i can't hear the talking because of THE DAMN MUSIC. Video people: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PUT MUSIC BEHIND EVERY CONVERSATION!!!
Now I see why the riots were happening
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So now its brush park and eastern market?
Since when are irish and germans eastern europeans?
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I believe there was a series of commas within that sentence.
nevermind that it was a Polish neighborhood
I find it ironic that the city of Detroit would title this video with both grammatical and punctuation errors.
I mean it wouldn't even pass a middle school English teachers forgiveness.
I suppose we've learned not to expect too much
Sad
Whites lost the Poletown neighborhood through Eminent Domain. They fought and lost against Coleman Young and General Motors. What did they do next? they moved on and built elsewhere. They took their resources and moved on.
True, but so did those displaced black people. The only difference is that the Polish, and other white minorities, could easily assimilate into mainstream white America and ,thus, could reap the benefits of no red-lining, getting bank loans, etc. Got to look a bit deeper into it to gain a better understanding.
@@REM977 Democrats have always been screwing blacks
@@REM977 Excellent comment. Exactly right.
@@PeaceToAll-sl1db I wouldn't come right out and call you a racist troll however...
Um no... Many people when they fled couldn't sell their homes. That's why so many houses are abandoned. They did not take their resources because the immigrant Catholic working class neighborhoods that got destroyed didn't have the same resources that the Anglo communities had. That's why the wealthy communities stayed and Catholics slowly saved up and left over the next 30 years. Most of the wealth from the Midwest that was created through the Michigan lumber industry that turned Michigan into a moonscape among other industries that extracted natural resources or got cannibalized in favour the auto industry. A lot of industry left the Rust Belt for the American South, which was done intentionally by the Federal government to spread out all the industry of the country away from the Midwest. The government thought everyone should have a piece of the pie instead of a centralized industrial heartland that was vulnerable to nuclear attack so the Rust Belt and all of the factory towns that fed the industry of the Midwest one by one economically collapsed. That is how the South and Western states got their manufacturing. Mexico too. Money from the Midwest went to build up California and the West Coast. The thing is, in 50 years people managed to slowly move away, which is still happening today. The satellite cities grew into suburbs and suburbs grew into new cities until SE Michigan/Metro Detroit grew like a giant ring around the city of Detroit. In a few decades, the farmland between Flint and Oakland county will be settled and Metro Detroit will stretch all the way to Flint. That process started in 1967. In the 1950's, Pontiac and Troy were small agricultural communities. Children in Troy had to choose to go to high school in Pontiac or Detroit. Look at the population census records if you don't believe me.
Coleman Young created a racist political machine that stole from and oppressed African Americans. Coleman Young literally made a speech where he told white people to get out of Detroit if they didn't like his corruption and parking lots. That political machine was destroyed when the FBI moved into the McNamara building because they were spending too much money flying to and from Detroit. That is why Detroit before COVID hit was suffering a small period of revival in the downtown area.
Change is the most integral part of all life…it is the only true constant in the entire universe!
So this is why card games were so prominent? Lol fr fr ik it’s a culture thing but all of the hoods be having rent parties when the card party is on the flo
What businesses?
Pool halls and blind pigs?
Those are thriving businesses eh?
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@Damien Williams Are you ok?
@Damien Williams 3 words makes you think my life is emotional? Seriously, are you okay?
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Very interesting bit of midwest/Detroit history. But after 1970s, global forces intervened, even after the big federal hiway project. The loss of the auto industry jobs was a major factor. Many blacks could get those factory/assembly-line jobs right out of high school, protected by auto unions. Also, many white, middle-classes moved to the suburbs, esp. after the urban riots. Big D. has no other industries to replace the loss--. Not like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Philly, which rely on big medicine. Why don't blacks go into farming, or play soccer, or start up shops? --Too much welfare?
Why don't you just come to town an open up your plantation, you racist troll!
Many whites moved to the suburbs via major assistance from the G.I. Bill that were denied to black servicemen. Also for poin tof information, the white flight was taking place almost 2 decades prior to the 67 Riots... (which was also the boiling point from police mistreatment and cramming blacks into that restricted area when Black Bottom was strategically slated for "Urban Renewal")
Contrary to lazy and bigoted reporting there are a lot black business existing and being started in and around the city but of course, that won't flow with this regions bashing narrative.
Yes, the city/region is heavy handed in the auto industry but there are still needs to be filled continually in the skill trades arena, to which many individuals are taking advantage of it.
Why don't blacks go into farming (have you checked the way black farmers are treated versus white farmers nationwide?) Play soccer (surely you jest).
You can't be from Detroit labeling us the "The Big D" ...LOL . That is Dallas moniker (Nimrod). The City of Detroit is known as "The D" period!
Whew....some people!
He's not being racist. He's actually speaking the truth and D. Tucker, you're actually telling the racialized version of the story.
leaving detroit during the riots of 1967 the lost 50% of white people started on 8mile road my Grandma lived on 9 mile road when left that day we saw tanks coming over the bridge
so jim crow was'nt just in the south. jim crow is the american system.
so in the late 30-40's people came over from africa and moved in there?
i thought black people from the south moved there for jobs.....
Most high ways were built over so called black areas another form of Indian removal acts
This is cool but no more. How good are Detroit's at prayer right now when it's much needed. That's what counts.
"Eastern European immigrants - they were Germans, they were Irish". You couldn't make this up. It's funny how even educated Americans don't know geography.
Technically they're east of Portugal
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The guy was being racist and they left it in the video. That wasn't a mistake.
never mind that it was almost exclusively Polish .....notwithstanding, they inferred that it was some level of racism that forced the city to destroy it (actually also inferring the Eisenhauer the Republican was to blame): the area was a crime ridden dump that was impossible to police and unsafe to those that lived there. Revisionism anyone?
Jewish population??? Italians?? Germans??> Irish??? Are you kidding me? Who put this thing together? This was almost EXCLUSIVELY a POLISH neighborhood from 1870 - 1940....Drive down Canfield: there are 4 Polish churches still there. One would think that it would be reasonable to acknowledge who built this part of the city even as a passing mention. You went far to give credit to everyoe except its builder. Do your research a little more carefully before misinforming people.
Capitalism at it's best.
Unions are socialist.
Wasn’t paradise valley Jewish in origin?
Who do think you're bullshiting
Not all blacks are stupid, but..
Thieving from the 1920s until the 50s than the Democrats came and all down hill since in the start of the 60s. The video said this not me, I just added the fact of the politics.
It was the Republican Albert Cobo was the one who destroyed black bottom Democrats had nothing to do with it.
Pistongreg Dud he also cause the astronomical illiteracy rate among blacks and the single parent homes, higher drop out rates?
Take some personal responsibly you all will be better off. Quit believing the lies the media and democrats tell you.
Cry me a river...Homies..
We will when your country bows down to China.... Soon and very soon ....lol