How Detroit lost the majority of it’s population and why: white flight and the economic depression of the 1980s
Project Topics: Politics
The Purple Gang: How Detroit Supplied Liquor to the United States During Prohibition
Detroit became one of the most important cities during the Prohibition because of the connections the Purple Gang had to Canada, and the mass amounts of alcohol that they were able to smuggle into the United States.
Segregation and Discriminatory Practices at Ford Motor Company in the 1930s and 40s
The Ford Motor Company was a place ahead of its time in the early 1900s especially with pushing work equality, however, by the 1930s and 40s, these factors began to change.
The Black Bottom, Slum Clearance, and Detroit’s Self-Destructive Desires
The Black Bottom Neighborhood Black Bottom was among the oldest neighborhoods in Detroit prior to its demolition. Although bearing a large immigrant and Jewish population by the turn of the 20th century, factors such as the Great Migration, new job opportunities, and redlining resulted in an explosion of Black Bottom’s African American population. Over the […]
Chicago’s Influence on Jazz Music
Jazz music began in New Orleans, Louisiana. The musical genre has roots in European traditions, blues, and ragtime. It also derives from work songs sung by slaves on southern plantations. Jazz was not a popular musical genre until the 20th century when African Americans moved to Chicago during the Great Migration to escape the Jim […]
Factors Behind the Chicago Race Riots of 1919
This project looks at the major contributing factors that led up to the Chicago Race Riots during the “Red Summer” of 1919.
The Creation of Early Childhood Intervention
Influences to the Creation of Early Childhood Intervention in Chicago Early Child Intervention began in the 1870s, when Americans began to open free child care centers for the poor. They did this as a means to save the impoverished children from falling into the same patterns of misfortunate as their parents. The centers were places […]
