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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. 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.

  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. 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]

  6. 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 ...

  7. Sugar Hill Historic District (Detroit) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. 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.

  9. 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 ...