Detroit Classic - The Rise and Fall of Detroit's Black Bottom"

My great grandfather owned 2 pool rooms and bar on Hastings street. My grandfather told me a ton of stories about Hasting street when he was a child growing up. He said at that time you thought you where in Harlem with all the nice cars and nice establishments that lit up at night. He also said if you couldn't make money back then you were not trying at all.

Thank you, I as a boy lived on Vernor Highway Vernor Highway and Woodward Avenue, I’m now 91.

Both my grandparents lived & grew up in black bottom! What an awesome history we have!

I took a sociology course at Henry Ford College and had a very knowledgeable professor . He took our class on a bus to Detroit and showed and explained to all of why what happened to Detroit happened . It's much easier to blame the blacks for the downfall of Detroit than become educated on what really happened . This needs to be shown to every student in history .

Nice to learn about the culture of Black Bottom. I have cousins in Detroit!! seeing this film brought back fond memories.

Yeah, my family migrated from Crenshaw, MS to Black Bottom. They hobo the train. My grandmother was 10 and her sitter was in her teens. My grandfather was the leader. He got a job in the factory and my grandmother was a housekeeper.I even went to Miller as a kid in the 60's. That area is gentrified now.

fabulous video and marvelous music - most enjoyable!!

Great documentary. Need to see more of the past of the D.

Just think of all the great live music that you heard on those streets. Think of the great store's to shop in. I wish that I had the chance to further experience and explore the city in that way. But Black Bottom was long gone before I was born in Detroit. Growing up as a young teenager, I would board a DSR bus and ride it to it's destination end, and ride it back again where I first boarded to sightsee other areas of Detroit. Many time's getting off and walking the avenues of the many stores and businesses that lined the streets of Detroit neighborhoods. Detroit was a fun and exciting place to explore as a kid, and young teen. Can't do that anymore. My parents met each other at the Graystone. Wish that I could visit the Graystone where my parents first met and danced together for their first time.

Black Bottom can be created again with willing talented people to invest. Our people are too distracted and rely on the government. The government in the state of Michigan is not for us. As a black man I've learned the games in this state. But am determined to invest in the city with my own money. We as people have got to wake up, this system especially in Detroit,Michigan is designed for us to fail. From the school system to everything else. They know what they are doing, which is why this state thrives off of the criminal Justice system!

This is a classy reporting ty

THIS WAS AMAZING TO THE CORE!!.... This is what I needed to see.

This was so accurate and so refreshing to see a detailed message about The real Detroit. Black Bottom.

Detroits Irish neighborhood/Cork Town actually got trisected by the freeway system. Thus you have Corktown, North Corktown, and an eastern part of Corktown that was redeveloped by the MGM casino a few years ago. Many communities not only in Detroit but across this country have been interrupted by redevelopments, roads, freeways, and interstates. A large swath of what used to be an Italian neighborhood about a mile north of downtown Cincinnati where the old Crosely Field was where the Reds once played was mowed down for I-75. So welcome to the club.

Motown was THE most important export from Detroit. Cars could be made anywhere, Detroit's motor industry did not put that city "on the map" but by 1963 EVERYONE AROUND THE WORLD knew about Detroit thanks to Berry Gordy Jr.'s Motown Record Corporation.

This should be a must study for all kids. Great for everybody.

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Amazing documentary, good info here. Thank you.

I’m sorry this happened. It looks like the people had a lot to take pride in and there was a lot of unity. The music that came out of places like this alone was enough to preserve the history for generations to come, now it’s just gone... My family hadn’t even come to the country yet but it looks like the old neighborhoods in New York my grandparents were from and took so much pride in.

Just a wonderful documentary Of a time gone to soon, just demolished as if it didn't exists!! Thank You Thank You!! I didn't live during that time but, have had the pleasure of speaking to so many people who did. It makes me sad, so sad that that "Mecca' of pride is gone.