Black Bottom Hasting Street Paradise Valley... Detroit, Michigan https://search.yahoo/search?fr=mcafee&type=B011US679D20130404&p=Detroit+Black+Bottom+History Black Bottom, Detroit From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Black Bottom was a predominantly black neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan, that was demolished and replaced with Lafayette Park in the 1960s. The Black Bottom–Paradise Valley area on the citys east side became known for its significant contribution to American music including Blues, Big Band, and Jazz from the 1930s to the 1950s. It was located on Detroits near East Side bounded by Gratiot Avenue, Brush Street, Vernor Highway, and the Grand Trunk railroad tracks. The French gave the Black Bottom area its name because of its fertile, dark topsoil. The name is not a reference to black people. The areas main commercial avenues were Hastings and St. Antoine streets. An adjacent north-bordering area known as Paradise Valley contained night clubs where famous Blues, Big Band, and Jazz artists such as Duke Ellington, Billy Eckstine, Pearl Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald, and Count Basie regularly performed. In 1941, the citys Orchestra Hall was named Paradise Theatre. Aretha Franklins father, the Reverend C. L. Franklin, first opened his New Bethel Baptist Church on Hastings Street. Hastings Street, which ran north-south through Black Bottom, had been an area populated by immigrants before World War I. With ethnic succession, by the 1950s it became an African-American community of black-owned business, social institutions, and night clubs. Historically, this area was the source of the River Savoyard, which was buried as a sewer in 1836. Its rich soils are the source of the name Black Bottom. Detroits Broadway Avenue Historic District contains a sub-district sometimes called the Harmonie Park District which has taken on the renowned legacy of Detroits music from the 1930s through the 1950s and into the present. Black Bottom endured the Great Depression, with many of its residents working in factories. Following World War II, the physical structures of Black Bottom were in need of replacement. In the early 1960s, the City of Detroit demolished the Black Bottom district as part of an urban renewal project. The area was replaced by the Chrysler Freeway (Interstate 75 and Interstate 375) and Lafayette Park, a residential development designed by Mies van der Rohe and intended as a model neighborhood. It combined residential townhouses, apartments and high-rises with commercial areas. Many of the residents relocated to large public housing projects such as the Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects Homes and Jeffries Homes. Historically, its primary business district was in an area bounded by Vernor, John R., Madison, and Hastings. Gratiot Avenue passed through that business district. The business district included hotels, restaurants, music stores, bowling alleys, shops, policy offices, and grocery stores. There were 17 nightclubs in that business district. (Notable residents) Della Reese Joe Louis (Notable Businesses) 606 Horseshoe Lounge Club Plantation Club 666 Portal icon Metro Detroit portal Portal icon African American portal History of the African-Americans in Metro Detroit (Footnotes) 1.^ Jump up to: a b Baulch, Vivian (August 7, 1996). Paradise Valley and Black Bottom. The Detroit News. Retrieved January 15, 2013. 2.Jump up ^ Binelli, p. 20. The name was not as racist as it sounds: the area was originally named by the French for its dark, fertile topsoil. 3.^ Jump up to: a b Woodford, p. 170. [...]i became the predominately black residential section known as Black Bottom, so named for the rich, dark soil on which early settlers farmed. 4.Jump up ^ Woodford, pp. 170-171. John R. on the west, and with Gratiot cutting through it, was the areas business district. It contained shops, music stores, grocery stores, bowling alleys, hotels, restaurants, policy offices, and seventeen nightclubs. (Works cited) Binelli, Mark (2012). Detroit City is the Place to Be (1st ed.). New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 978-0-8050-9229-5. Woodford, Arthur M (2001). This is Detroit, 1701-2001. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 9780814329146. (External links) Lafayette Park/Mies van der Rohe Historic District Paradise Valley Marker Walter P. Reuther Library When Detroit paved over paradise: The story of I-375 Categories: African-American history in Detroit, Michigan Ethnic enclaves in Michigan Music of Detroit, Michigan (Social Media Disclaimer:) https://plus.google/u/0/114673105... (This Courtesy Youtube Video Is For Entertainment, (History/Legacy) Educational And Memoir Purpose Only) All Music/Audio/Video Footage Materials Belong To There Own Respectable And Rightful Owners, Labels, Artists And Writers Etc... And PARKSIDE PJs Take No Credit, Recognition, Collateral/Dividend Connection Or Responsibilities, On Behalf Of This Youtube Video...
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