Detroit's Sojourner Truth Housing Riot of 1942: Prelude to the Race Riot of 1943 Iconoclast Press It is the ability to

It is the ability to really understand what other people think and feel

I am just as much out of the way as if I were dead

- Christian Church Growth (Books)

and memory

Detroit's Sojourner Truth Housing Riot of 1942: Prelude to the Race Riot of 1943 Iconoclast Press It is the ability toDuring World War II, no American city suffered a worse housing shortage than Detroit, and no one suffered that shortage more than the city's African American citizens. In 1941, the federal government began constructing the Sojourner Truth Housing Project in northeast Detroit to house 200 black war production workers and their families. Almost immediately, whites in the neighborhood vehemently protested. On February 28, 1942, a confrontation between