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We want white tenants

Sign with American flag "We want white tenants in our white community," directly opposite the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. federal housing project in Detroit, Michigan. A riot was caused by white neighbors' attempts to prevent Negro tenants from moving in.

Date
1942-02
Collection
FSA/OWI
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
photograph
Original size
5,974 × 4,753 pixels

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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).

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"We want white tenants" (1942-02). FSA/OWI. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:We_want_white_tenants.jpg

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