Day in the History of Racial Injustice

Photo courtesy of bridgemi.com White residents of one northern Detroit neighborhood were not happy when a federal public housing development for blacks was announced in the early 1940s, during World War II.

February 28, 1942 ~ A mob of more than 1,000 white people riots outside public housing project in Detroit, Michigan, to prevent Black families from moving in.

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