{"id":3769,"date":"2021-02-05T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T05:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/?p=3769"},"modified":"2021-02-05T11:05:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T16:05:19","slug":"feb-5-haunting-images-of-americas-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2021\/02\/05\/feb-5-haunting-images-of-americas-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb 5 – “haunting images of America’s past”"},"content":{"rendered":"

We usually save this space for what we call \u201ccontextual paragraphs\u201d \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0short essays which we try to connect with something from the day that \u201cwants our attention\u201d \u00a0– – \u00a0e.g., the weather, some striking\u00a0crisis, the season of the year, etc. \u00a0Today\u2019s offering does not take the form of such an essay, \u00a0we found the \u201cGhosts of Segregation\u201d photo series; its photo images and captions we find transformative and we are proud to offer them to the Poetry List\u2019s c. 2,500 readers.<\/p>\n

Have a blest weekend,<\/p>\n

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john sj<\/p>\n

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African Americans looking for day jobs frequently congregated along this wall on the 7 Mile side hoping to get a day job from someone who would by drive by and pick them up.\u00a0 It was frequently taken to be an image of African American men standing \u201cidly\u201d so that the wall became a racist image of African American laziness.<\/p>\n

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REDLINING WALL – DETROIT, MICHIGAN<\/strong><\/p>\n

When the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) was founded in 1934, the process of “redlining,” the act of denying loans and financial services to black neighborhoods while granting them for white neighborhoods, was codified. The Detroit neighborhood of Wyoming was a redlined black neighborhood for nearly a decade until the early 1940s, when developers wanted to build a white development in the area. They were denied by the FHA because their plan placed the white neighborhood “too close” to the black neighborhood. Thinking quickly, the developers responded by building a half-mile long wall directly between Mendota Street and Birwood Avenue for a full three blocks. This was enough to be given the nod of approval from the U.S. government. The wall, now known as 8 Mile Wall, was the official racial divider for over 20 years, until the Fair Housing Act supposedly abolished such racist policies in 1968.<\/p>\n

PHOTOGRAPHED: 2018<\/p>\n

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NEGRO LEAGUE STADIUM – HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN<\/strong><\/p>\n

Built in 1930, Hamtramck Stadium was home to the Negro National League Detroit Stars in 1930-1931 and again in 1933. The field was also home to the Detroit Wolves of the Negro East-West League in 1932, and to the Negro American League Detroit Stars in 1937.<\/p>\n

PHOTOGRAPHED: 2019<\/p>\n

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For more images, please see: https:\/\/www.ghostsofsegregation.com\/gallery.html?folio=GALLERY&gallery=IMAGES<\/a><\/p>\n

For detail about the photographer, Rich Frishman, please see: https:\/\/www.ghostsofsegregation.com\/content.html?page=5<\/a><\/p>\n

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We usually save this space for what we call \u201ccontextual paragraphs\u201d \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0short essays which we try to connect with something from the day that \u201cwants our attention\u201d \u00a0– – \u00a0e.g., the weather, some striking\u00a0crisis, the season of the year, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3772,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions\/3772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}