The World War Two era saw some of the largest civil rights protests in Michigan history focused on ending discrimination in area hiring and segregation in housing, notably at Willow Run. Here, Detroit demonstrators called by the NAACP and the UAW-CIO march down Theodore St. to Cadillac Square to end Jim Crow in Michigan. April 11, 1943.
Source : South Adams Street circa 1900 Facebook page
Negroes barred from Willow Run Housing Project, Detroit Tribune article, February 13, 1943:
Source :South Adams Street circa 1900 Facebook Page, March 2, 2017.
The Afro-American newspaper Detroit Tribune reports on the continuing struggle, September 23, 1943:
