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Black Bottom was a predominantly black neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan, that was demolished for redevelopment in the early 1960s. It was replaced with Lafayette Park. It was located on Detroit's near East side bounded by Gratiot Avenue, Brush Street, Vernor Highway, and the Grand Trunk railroad tracks.

 

The area's main commercial avenues were Hastings and St. Antoine streets. An adjacent north-bordering neighborhood was known as Paradise Valley. The two were not considered to be the same neighborhood. Historically, this area was the source of the River Savoyard, which was buried as a sewer in 1836. Its "bottomland" and rich marsh soils are the source of the name "Black Bottom".[1]

 

Hastings Street, which ran north-south through Black Bottom, had been an area populated by immigrants before World War I. With ethnic succession, by the 1950s it became an African-American community of black-owned business, social institutions, and night clubs. It became nationally famous for its music scene: major blues singers, big bands, and jazz artists—such as Duke Ellington, Billy Eckstine, Pearl Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald, and Count Basie—regularly performed in the bars and clubs of Paradise Valley entertainment district. Aretha Franklin's father, the Reverend C. L. Franklin, first opened his New Bethel Baptist Church on Hastings Street.

 

Black Bottom endured the Great Depression, with many of its residents working in factories. Following World War II, the physical structures of Black Bottom were in need of replacement. In the early 1960s, the City of Detroit demolished the Black Bottom district as part of an urban renewal project. The area was replaced by the Chrysler Freeway (Interstate 75) and Lafayette Park, a residential development designed by Mies van der Rohe and intended as a model neighborhood. It combined residential townhouses, apartments and high-rises with commercial areas. Many of the residents relocated to large public housing projects such as the Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects Homes and Jeffries Homes.

 

Other historical Detroit black neighborhoods include Conant Gardens, Russell Woods, and Elmwood Park.

 

History Of Detroit Parkside And Brewster Project Homes (Web-Page)...

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Detroit Public Housing History And Legacy Memoirs (Public Page)

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Hastings Street Paradise Valley Blackbottom Blues (Public Page)

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Blackbottom Paradise Valley Chandler Parkside PJ's "LEGACY" Memoirs (Public Page)...

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Hastings Street "Blackbottom" Paradise Valley... Parkside ROOTS Detroit, MI (Public Page)...

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> Alden B. Dow Archives (Midland)

> Andrews University Library

> Archives of American Art (Detroit)

> Bay County Historical Society (Bay City)

> Bishop Baraga Association

> Calvin College and Seminary, Heritage Hall Collections

> Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit Archives

> Catholic Diocese of Grand Rapids Chancery Office, Archives

> Central Michigan University, Clark Historical Library

Copper Range Historical Society (South Range)

> Dearborn Historical Commission

> Dearborn Historical Museum

> Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Archives and Records Center

> Detroit Public Library, Automotive History Collection

> Detroit Public Library, Burton Historical Collection

> Ferris State College Library

> Finnish American Historical Archive and Museum (Hancock)

> Flint Public Library

> Frankenmuth Historical Association

> Garden Peninsula Historical Society (Garden)

> Gerald R. Ford Library

> Grand Rapids Public Library

> Hackley Public Library

> Hartwick Pines Memorial Hall

> Hope United Methodist Church Library (Edwardsburg)

> Huron City Museums (Port Austin)

> Institute of Gerontology Library (University of Michigan-Wayne State University)

> Iron County Museum and Historical Society (Caspian)

> Joint Archives of Holland (Hope College, Holland)

> Kalamazoo College Library

> Kalamazoo Public Library

> Lewis College of Business (Detroit)

> Marquette County Historical Society

> Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum Archives (University Center)

> Mason County Historical Society, Rose Hawley Museum

> McKay Library (Augusta)

> Michigan State University Library

> Michigan State University, Archives and Historical Collections

> Monroe County Historical Museum Archives

> Netherlands Museum (Holland)

> Oakland University Library

> Saginaw Public Libraries

> United Methodist Church, West Michigan Conference, Commission on Archives and History (Albion College Library)

> University of Detroit Library

> University of Michigan Library, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections

> University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library, Michigan Historical Collections

> University of Michigan, Law Library

> University of Michigan, Transportation Library

> University of Michigan, William L. Clements Library

> Wayne State University Archives

> Wayne State University Library

> Wayne State University, Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs

> Western Michigan University, Regional History Collections

> Western Theological Seminary, Beardslee Library

 

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