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Paradise Valley and Black Bottom cleared
1959
Detroit, Michigan
Mike Russell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The centre of Black business and music in the city, hundreds of shops, and clubs where Ellington and Billie Holiday played, was condemned for urban renewal and the Chrysler Freeway. Some 130,000 people were displaced and the neighbourhoods were never rebuilt.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: approximate area
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