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The story of the Great Migration often overlooks Black businesses that built Detroit

Summary by The Conversation
The flourishing Black business district in Detroit, Mich., photographed in 1942. Arthur S. Siegel via the Library of Congress, CC BY-NDBlack businesses were essential to facilitating the Great Migration of African Americans out of the South between the 1910s and 1960s. Yet, the traditional narrative of the migration as a movement of laborers seeking high-wage jobs obscures the history of African Americans who moved north or west seeking entrepre…

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The Conversation broke the news in on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.
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