On this day in 1959: Ground broken on Detroit freeway that helped destroy a Black neighborhood

A view of the Chrysler Freeway (I-375), looking east from the roof of the Detroit City-County Building in 1964. Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University. On Jan. 30, 1959, Detroit government officials broke ground on a federal interstate, I-375, that was the…

Story continues

TRENDING NOW

LATEST LOCAL NEWS