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Black Bottom was a predominantly black neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan. The term has sometimes been used to apply to the entire neighborhood including Paradise Valley, but many consider the two neighborhoods to be separate. [ 1 ]
It spotlights the fraught history of an area cleared of Black Bottom and Paradise Valley, key neighborhoods in the history of Detroit’s Black population, and how the project, which MDOT says is ...
Lewis has been several things, including a resident of Detroit's Black Bottom neighborhood, an author, a wife, a mother, a 32-year Detroit teacher, a community servant, a world traveler, a breast ...
Meanwhile, Detroit's first African American residents settled in Black Bottom and Paradise Valley. As the black population grew into the 1930s, the Paradise Valley area expanded up Hastings Street to Warren Avenue, and developed onto the parallel streets of St. Antoine, Beaubien, and Brush. [2]
Much of Paradise Valley and Black Bottom was bulldozed to make room for I-375. This further constricted the already tight housing market for black migrants, exacerbating the housing crisis. Despite the lack of housing, black people continued to move to Detroit, and by 1960, almost 30% of the population of Detroit was black. [9]
Paradise Valley Cultural & Entertainment District (PVCED): Paradise Valley, once known as Black Bottom in Detroit, is getting redeveloped with an investment of $52.4 million. [8] This construction includes establishing the Paradise Valley Cultural and Entertainment Conservancy to honor the tradition of jazz and African American culture.
These neighborhoods (such as Black Bottom and Paradise Valley) were extremely important to the black communities of Detroit, providing spaces for independent black businesses and social/cultural organizations. Their destruction displaced residents with little consideration of the effects of breaking up functioning neighborhoods and businesses. [64]
The 1920s saw an influx of black immigrants from the south moving into the surrounding communities of Black Bottom and Paradise Valley. [2] The Detroit Parks Department began to realize that this community lacked any real recreation center. This forced their hand to begin a $500,000 renovation of the old library into a community center.