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DETROIT NEIGHBORHOODS · HISTORIC BLACK DETROIT

BLACK BOTTOM & PARADISE VALLEY.

Black Bottom and Paradise Valley were central to Detroit's Black residential, business, entertainment, and cultural life before major urban-renewal and freeway projects transformed the area.

Detroit, Michigan. Typical Negro business district
REAL DETROIT SOURCE · Detroit Black business district, February 1942. The Library of Congress record does not identify the exact district.
Source: Arthur S. Siegel / source record · Public domain — FSA/OWI
NEIGHBORHOOD FILE

A neighborhood documented on its own terms.

Black-owned businesses and institutions
Nightlife, music, hotels, and commercial life
Housing and migration
Urban renewal and freeway construction
Use Black press sources to broaden the historical record
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Maps, newspapers, photographs, institutions, businesses, and community history belong here without reducing Black Bottom and Paradise Valley to what later displaced them.

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