Extensive population growth in Royal Oak Township spurred construction of the Ulysses S. Grant Elementary School in 1926. The Ferndale School District created mandatory attendance areas that relocated many of the Black students in the district to . . . — — Map (db m295506) HM
During the early twentieth century, many African Americans migrated north to work in Detroit's automobile factories. Increased migration during World War II prompted Royal Oak Township's Clinton School District to split into two racially segregated . . . — — Map (db m95364) HM
Birwood Wall. Constructed in 1941, the Birwood Wall divided the existing Black community in the Eight Mile-Wyoming area from Blackstone Park. a newly built White subdivision. The wall is a reminder of institutionalized racial segregation in . . . — — Map (db m207681) HM
