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As a strikingly controversial project in 1941, Sojourner Truth Project (alternately named the Sojourner Truth Project) set precedents for Detroit housing project policy through the next decade. Created by the Detroit Housing Commission (DHC) and United States Housing Authority (USHA), the proposed two-hundred-units would alleviate housing shortages caused by the wartime climate of World War II. However, the project was met with extreme backlash from white residents and middle-class black homeowners in Conant Gardens. Violence erupted in 1942 when black families moved into the project housing. More than a thousand black supporters and white opponents crowded streets culminating in violent displays later characterized as the Sojourner Truth riot. White racists opposed to integrated public ho

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rdfs:comment	As a strikingly controversial project in 1941, Sojourner Truth Project (alternately named the Sojourner Truth Project) set precedents for Detroit housing project policy through the next decade. Created by the Detroit Housing Commission (DHC) and United States Housing Authority (USHA), the proposed two-hundred-units would alleviate housing shortages caused by the wartime climate of World War II. However, the project was met with extreme backlash from white residents and middle-class black homeowners in Conant Gardens. Violence erupted in 1942 when black families moved into the project housing. More than a thousand black supporters and white opponents crowded streets culminating in violent displays later characterized as the Sojourner Truth riot. White racists opposed to integrated public ho (en)
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name	Sojourner Truth Homes (en)
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location	Detroit, Michigan
dct:subject	African-American history in Detroit African-American segregation in the United States History of civil rights in the United States Public housing in Detroit National Register of Historic Places in Detroit
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	1943 Detroit race riot African-American history in Detroit African-American segregation in the United States Conant Gardens History of civil rights in the United States Detroit, Michigan Public housing in Detroit National Register of Historic Places in Detroit National Register of Historic Places World War II United States Housing Authority Residential Detroit housing project
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has abstract	As a strikingly controversial project in 1941, Sojourner Truth Project (alternately named the Sojourner Truth Project) set precedents for Detroit housing project policy through the next decade. Created by the Detroit Housing Commission (DHC) and United States Housing Authority (USHA), the proposed two-hundred-units would alleviate housing shortages caused by the wartime climate of World War II. However, the project was met with extreme backlash from white residents and middle-class black homeowners in Conant Gardens. Violence erupted in 1942 when black families moved into the project housing. More than a thousand black supporters and white opponents crowded streets culminating in violent displays later characterized as the Sojourner Truth riot. White racists opposed to integrated public housing exploited the riot's sensationalized violence to manipulate policy makers to oppose future projects. (en)
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is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of	1943 Detroit race riot Betty Shabazz Black women in American politics List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States 1967 Detroit riot Mass racial violence in the United States Public housing in Detroit The Floaters Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit Sojourner Truth Housing Project
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