FILE PATHEXPLORE DETROIT/DETROIT HISTORY
THE PEOPLE

A City of Arrivals

Immigration, migration, working families, churches, neighborhoods and the communities that built Detroit.

Leland Street looking east from Hastings Street in Detroit, April 25, 1960
DETROIT CONTEXT

The city through its people.

Migration, immigration, families, churches, and neighborhoods are treated here as parts of Detroit’s social landscape rather than background decoration.

Detroit’s population was shaped by migration from the American South, immigration from abroad and movement within the region. Those communities built neighborhoods, workplaces, churches, businesses and civic institutions that cannot be reduced to a single Detroit story.

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