Detroit Wall
Concrete wall, one half mile long, Detroit, Michigan. This wall was erected in August 1941 to separate the Negro section from a new suburban housing development for whites. (Description from Libray of Congress)
- Date
- 1941-08
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 8,000 × 6,125 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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