The story of the Great Migration often overlooks Black businesses that built Detroit
- Written by: Kendra D. Boyd, Assistant Professor of History, Rutgers University
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...







