Detroit in recent years has been one of the few big Northern cities to escape large-scale Negro rioting.
The city began hiring and promoting more Negro police, integrated two-man patrol cars for the first time; and the police commissioner supervised meetings with Negro groups to discuss police problem
Tax reductions and some ardent wooing of company executives by Cavanagh have stemmed the flight of industry from Detroit,
fortable with the presence of African-Americans in their city [1]. Ugly race prejudice began to surface, however, when large numbers of Blacks expecting equality began coming to the city.
Whites responded to the influx of "uncivilized" Blacks with restrictive covenants and segregation.
Evidence of such racial discrimination shocked migrants who had hoped for fair treatment in the Nor
The presence of white migrants from the South intensified racial tension in Detroit
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) began to surface in Detroit in the mid-1920s
ost educated, upper-class whites denied any association with the KKK. They exhibited their prejudices in other ways
scapegoats
Instead of condemning the broad generalizations whites were making about Blacks, many African-Americans acted as if whites were justified in using stereotypes of migrants as a basis for discrimination against all Blacks.
Whites and Black elites alike blamed migrants for the high Black crime rates.