DETROIT, Nov 24 — As a child living in Detroit, Teresa Moon didn’t know anything about the concrete stone wall she could see from the kitchen window in her family’s home. Sixty years on, in that same kitchen, she knows all about the Birwood Wall, or the 8 Mile Wall, which was built in the...
Teresa Moon, 66, a Detroit resident who lives next to a former segregation wall which used to separate black and white communities, speaks during an interview in her home, October 25, 2019, in Detroit, Michigan. — AFP pic
“We live in a community that is about building confidence, about ownership about being proud of who you are. Why would my parents tell me something about that?” Moon confides, haltingly. 8 Mile earned pop culture fame thanks to white rapper Eminem, whose biopic was named for the neighbourhood. But, Moon points out, he wasn’t from the area — he grew up in the nearby city of Warren.The entire Detroit area was propelled for decades by the auto industry, but Motor City is now one of the poorest major urban centres in America.
In some states, those laws remained in effect in the late 1950s and 1960s. But even after that, the spectre of segregation effectively kept some places segregated for decades to follow.“Detroit is the most segregated metropolitan area in the country,” says Eric Williams, a lawyer for the non-profit Detroit Justice Center.
Detroit’s black 8 Mile neighbourhood had already existed for decades. But in the midst of a post-war housing boom, developers were attracted to the area, and wanted to build a white neighbourhood. On her family’s side of the wall, “black people couldn’t get mortgages, black people couldn’t get loans, black people couldn’t... you know, become more, couldn’t develop wealth like generational wealth — couldn’t get nothing,” she said.
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