| Clip Of Detroit's Paradise Valley

Video Clip: Detroit's Paradise Valley

Description

Paradise Valley was the business and entertainment district in Detroit for African Americans from the 1920s through the 1950s. Historian and tour guide Jamon Jordan traveled to the area that was once known as Paradise Valley and explained how urban renewal plans in the 1960s wiped out this area.

4 minutes

Keywords

  • Eminent Domain
  • Great Migration
  • Jim Crow Laws
  • Sharecropping
  • Tenant Farming
  • Urban Renewal

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