We want white tenants (cropped)
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
- 5,309 × 4,331 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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