[Crawford]

Detroit was probably the wealthiest black population on earth from the Great Depression through the 1970's. That era produced a lot, Motown being the most prominent. But also ton of odd religious and militant sects, now largely forgotten. Shrine of the Black Madonna, NOI spinoffs/rivals, prosperity preachers dabbling in Black Panther militantism, back to Africa movements, etc.

Black neighborhoods, till the 1970's, occupied some of the best neighborhoods in the city. Black growth followed Jewish/WASP flight, through the city's Northwest favored quarter, so middle class black Detroiters generally had larger/nicer housing than middle class white Detroiters of the same era, who were concentrated in the modest newer bungalow neighborhoods. Kinda like LA, the neighborhoods were suburbanish, leafy and auto-oriented from an early era. Boston-Edison, a mansion neighborhood that had housed bigs like Henry Ford, was a black neighborhood by the 1950's.