Special Focus: 1943 Race Riot · Before the Unrest: 1940 - 1967 · 12th Street Detroit
The race riots in Detroit concerning civilian employment of black workers and the housing of their families directly contradicts the myth canon of a unified nation "coming together" to fight world war II. Move through the other sections of this site to get pictures and other primary documents to show to students. One approach is to show them without dates and ask the students to identify them