We_want_white_tenants.jpg

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English: 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.
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Author Arthur S. Siegel
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Public domain This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government , the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright .

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Detroit, Michigan, 1942: Sign "We want white tenants in our white community,"

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February 1942

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