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Black. despite its diversity, though, detroit remained a segregated place. the city's growing black community found itself antagonized by the police and racial tensions began boiling over in cities across the country in 1960s. in detroit this happened with five days of violence. nearly 43 deaths, nearly 1200 injuries. the governor called in the national guard and president sent in army. white flight to the suburbs, which had been under way for some time, accelerated and created an opening for republicans to exploit racial tensions and to make a pitch to the blue-collar whites who had been the ...

Lifting created the happy days into which baby boomers like me were born and the middle class that gave their parents the steps of the ladder to climb beyond the poverty of the depression and the pain of the war. chapter 6 was detroit's contribution to the culture. it was the green house of the music of our lives, from the immortal moves of barry gordy's motown sound to nugent, mitch rider, the mc5, america's pop culture. it's influence would shape our taste as much as white wall tires and bucket seats. chapter 7 was one of america's largest cities, being rocked by the race riots of the 60s an...

Left to handle a tax burden that did not change. you had the same number of city employees and police officers. there weren't cuts to match the population. that is one of the biggest reasons. >> the so-called white flight you've discussed as well, that plays into all of this, moving out to the suburbs? >> actually it's white flight and middle class black flight. you started with white flight and it began before the 1967 riots but continued in ernest after that. you have people, there is an economic instead of racial sort of migration. so there were lots of people that when they could afford to...

Tr trayvon martin said, he was a creepy ass cracker and you have fear and dis trust. you grew up with a lot of fear and dis trust. tell me about that. >> i grew up in california which borders open to the south and we moved there in the 1970s and it was 99.9% white. white flight designation from oakland and other cities in the area as they were becoming more and more diverse. the problem is in communities like that, the face of crime is young and black and so that being the case, you are a suspect by walking down the street. i think that's the fundamental question we have to answer in terms of ...

Moved away. they called it white flight. right? the census from 1960, for instance, records a jackson, mississippi, that was majority white. almost 2-1. by 1990, jackson's population had made the turn toward getting smaller and it was getting much blacker. by 2010, jackson, mississippi, had become the second most african-american city in the nation. white people in the previously legally segregated south, and really across the nation, abandoned places rather than see them change. but white people were not the only ones who moved away. from roughly the first world war through the 1970s, our cou...