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  2. Black Bottom, Detroit - Wikipedia

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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 ]

  3. Detroit woman, 87, writes book about her life that began in ...

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    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 ...

  4. A majority of Detroit wants reparations for Black residents ...

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    However, within a matter of years, Black Bottom would be demolished, along with an adjacent neighborhood known as Paradise Valley, in order to construct a major highway, Interstate 375. The ...

  5. When Black workers moved to Detroit to work on Model T ... - AOL

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    A busy Hastings Avenue in Paradise Valley, near Black Bottom in 1942. Hastings was once filled with Black-owned businesses until I 375 was built in the late 1950s and 1960s.

  6. Brewster-Wheeler Recreation Center - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Eight Mile-Wyoming area - Wikipedia

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    The Eight Mile-Wyoming area historically represented an empowering area for Black home development and ownership in the 1920s and 1930s. Horace White, a leading Detroit minister and the first black member of the Detroit Housing Commission (DHC), states it represented an important place of black settlement "because it was their one opportunity, as they saw it, to own their own homes and rear ...

  8. Controversy erupts over low-income housing plan for trendy ...

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    Some have paid well over $500,000 for homes — even $1 million-plus in instances — while others pay market-rate rents that can exceed $1,800 a month for one-bedroom apartments and $2,400 for ...

  9. Demographic history of Detroit - Wikipedia

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    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]