Communities destroyed & displaced
Black Bottom and Paradise Valley, cleared for urban renewal
Clearance from 1949; Chrysler Freeway completed in the early 1960sBlack Bottom and Paradise Valley, lower east side, Detroit, MI
Detroit demolished its densest Black neighbourhood and the business district beside it for Lafayette Park and the Chrysler Freeway, displacing thousands of families and hundreds of Black-owned businesses.
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