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Before the ghetto riot of 1967, Detroit's black population had the highest rate of home-ownership of any black urban population in the country, and their unemployment rate was just 3.4 percent. It was not despairing that fueled the riot. It was the riot which marked the beginning of the decline of Detroit to its current state of despair.
This trend of population decline did not change in the following 30 years, and by 2010, the population of Detroit had decreased by about 60%. [15] The black population of Detroit peaked at over 3/4 of a million between 1980 and 2000, and then black flight began, and between 2000 and 2020 over 1/3 of all black and white residents left Detroit ...
An icon of Detroit’s ruin is now a symbol of Motor City’s economic resurgence. Alicia Wallace, CNN. June 6, 2024 at 12:59 PM. For more than 35 years, Michigan Central Station has lain dormant ...
The decline of population and employment opportunities in Detroit had been going on for decades prior to the bankruptcy filing. Detroit’s population declined from 2 million in 1950 to 714,000 in 2010. [20] Jobs followed the population, as over two-thirds of businesses in Detroit closed between 1972 and 2015. [21]
Detroit struggled financially, and in 2013, it became the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy. ... In the past seven decades, the steady decline in the city’s population, ...
F574.D49 N4835 2005. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit is the first book by historian and Detroit native Thomas J. Sugrue in which he examines the role race, housing, job discrimination, and capital flight played in the decline of Detroit. Sugrue argues that the decline of Detroit began long before the 1967 ...
The once-blighted monolithic Michigan Central train station — for decades a symbol of Detroit’s decline — has new life following a massive six-year, multimillion-dollar renovation to create ...
Detropia. Detropia is a 2012 American documentary film, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, about the city of Detroit, Michigan. [1] It focuses on the decline of the economy of Detroit due to long-term changes in the automobile industry, and the effects that the decline has had on the city's residents and infrastructure. The film's name ...