Reel Number: 221739-52
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1935
Country: USA
Location: Detroit,Michigan
TC Begins: 13:56:36
TC Ends: 13:57:15
Duration: 00:00:39
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1935 - Depression: Eleanor Roosevelt Inaugurates Detroit Slum Clearance. Sep35 Motorcade thru many spectators lining street. Crowds w/ many police near wooden houses in Black Bottom communty. HA of Eleanor out of car w/ VIPs; HA people seated behind rope watching, young girls performing dance on dirt beneath American flag. Eleanor & ?? on reviewing stand w/ Black women standing in front. 13:57:06 Small wooden house pulled down w/ cable. WPA Slum Clearance; Government Works Project; NOTE: Street pageant held at 651 Benton Street to initiate building of the Brewster Homes, first federally funded housing project designed for Blacks.