This session will provide a historical survey of the past several decades of Detroit’s social change movements: how they inform our current moment and interact with a particular Jewish concern for social justice. We will explore foundational eras and movements in Detroit, from “white flight,” suburbanization, “riots” or “the rebellion,” to Black Power and the Coleman Young era. By deepening our understanding of these histories, we will try to understand how these factors and remnants influence our actions as Jews today.
