Yet while white people felt welcomed, many Black residents said their civil rights were violated. In 1971, after a trial, U.S ...

Here at Lafayette Central Park, a Historical Marker now sits. It reminds people of where Black Bottom used to be, and although that neighborhood is now gone, it's history lives on.

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — Leslie Knox was a young girl in the 1960s when her Detroit-area city was accused of destroying neighborhoods to get rid of Black residents. Decades later, the retired nurse ...