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Yet while white people felt welcomed, many Black residents said their civil rights were violated. In 1971, after a trial, U.S ...
Yet while white people felt welcomed, many Black residents said their civil rights were violated. In 1971, after a trial, U.S. District Judge Damon Keith ruled that the city had intentionally ...
ANN ARBOR, MI — Snow flurries and freezing temperatures didn’t keep people from coming out to the Michigan ... pushed many Black residents to the outskirts or outside the city.
Generations Later, a Remedy to Destroying Black Neighborhoods Is Fulfilled in Michigan ... the last people to benefit from an extraordinary legal settlement that requires the small city to build ...
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. – Leslie Knox was a young girl in the 1960s when her Detroit-area city was accused of destroying neighborhoods to get rid of Black residents. Decades later, the retired nurse ...