| Wall of Separation, This eight-foot high, one-half
mile long "wailing wall" separated white subdivisions in Detroit
from an adjoining black neighborhood. While the South was infamous for its
Jim Crow laws, northern whites virulently defended de facto segregation,
as this 1951 photo reveals. Source: This is Detroit: 1701-1951,
Two Hundred and Fifty Years in Pictures, edited by William White (1951). |
