HILD 7A Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Packard Automotive Plant, Commuter Town, Deindustrialization
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African americans in the postwar era (detroit and memphis) Deindustrialization: the reverse process of industrialization: Huge reduction in money to invest in schools, infrastructure, etc. Depopulation: deindustrialization had a huge impact on african americans in the second half of the 20th century. Detroit at its industrial peak: 1940s just four miles north of downtown detroit was one of the largest industrial centers in the u. s. : Dodge main (employed 35,000 workers in a massive 5-story building) Murray auto body major producer of auto parts. Packard motors produced cars in a 95 building coplex. In about 10 years, the area was no longer recognizable: widespread plant closings and layoffs( murray auto body, packard plant, Studebaker all shut down between 1953-1957: dodge main cut its work force by several thousand in the late 1950s, empty multistory factories dotted the city landscape. Restrictive covenants: could(cid:374)"t rent or sell property to non white people, shelley v. kraemer (1948) outlawed restrictive covenants.
