Bailey the link of the city of detroit in the city of windsor is not just a link it is a story of two nations. There is 16 billion dollars of trade per year for both countries. Rely on this, so it is a tremendously important part of our history and has been since precivil war. During prohibition, detroit was responsible for bringing in 75 of all illegal alcohol, and of course, our neighbors from the south, windsor in canada. Was still city, usa, and we were not only transporting the raw materials, but the finished materials. There were days in the 1860s when you had 7000 to 10,000 waiting to be transported. They would have to wait for ferries to take them to canada or vice versa and that backlog made the conversation about a tunnel or a bridge take the National Front front forefront by the 1870s. We had to wait about this dissertation that is very slow because ferries can only transport 5270 cars at a time. 70 cars at a time. We need an infrastructure that can support taking from candi
Historical museum. We are here at the frontiers to factories exhibit. This shows us the history of detroit, from basically before the city was settled, the actual city of detroit, up through the rise of the various industries that take place in this city. About a span of 200 years. The city of detroit itself was founded by the french. In 1701. Detroit is a french name. It means the strait. That represents the strait of water, the Detroit River, that now separates the United States from canada. At that time it was all one region of land, inhabited by the various native american peoples. This is a representation of what it may have looked like around 1701, when the french settled this area. That there is a long, long history that took place before then. Human habitation began in this area almost as far as 2000 years ago, with the cultures we sometimes refer to as moundbuilders, who came out of the Mississippi River area. They came to this region and left us these large burial mounds. At
It built the thing that destroyed itself, the car. We built the car to leave the city, so isnt that ironic . Just 40the richest years ago. We were the richest city, and now we are the poorest, and now you cannot buy a cadillac in the town settled by cadillac. So what happened to detroit happened. I am more interested in what is going to happen and if i can make it better for all of our kids, and im interested in that. There used to be so much money here. They talk about the saturday night drives up and down woodward, and you got a new car every other year, and there were so many jobs that you could go across the streets to the other supplier i get another job until your boss to screw it. We were rocking. We had the greatest schools and graduates, so we did not take advantage of it because cars were our life and then things changed. After the oil, people did not want the cars. The cars were made poorly, right . The japanese and foreign car started catching us. Factories started moving o
Saturday at 4 00 p. M. Eastern, here on American History tv. I have a dream this afternoon, that one day right here in detroit 1963 it, would be here where dr. Martin luther king gave his portion of the i have a dream speech. Announcer continuing our tour of detroits history with historian and tour guide, we had back downtown to cobo center, which is low coded on the banks of the detroit river. So we are in downtown detroit, at what is now cobo center. It was built in 1960 as cobo hall and cobo arena, named after the former mayor, who was a supporter of housing segregation. When this was built, it became the Main Convention center for the city of detroit. In 1963, it would be here where dr. Martin luther king, after leaving one of the largest civil rights marches in americas history, 125,000 people, would come here to listen to a portion of the i have a dream speech on june 23, 1963. He gave the portion of that speech right here in detroit two months before he gives it in washington. P
Bishop, for allowing me this time. Part of my amendment is in the en bloc and it deals with wastewater treatment. No person in america living in this country should be allowed to not have adequate plumbing. This is why ive introduced an amendment asking the usda to pry or oties our ongoing efforts to address failing septic systems in Rural Communities. Approximately 20 of americans are responsible for the installation and maintenance of their own sewage disposal systems, which isnt provided by their municipalities or their county government. At least 200,000 families live in homes that have a lack of sewage system altogether. We offer little assistance to people who live in unincorporated areas to have basic water and sewer. Rural communities across this country struggle with this issue. Just this week, i read lots and lots of articles that dealt with failure of those folks in Rural Communities to have adequate sewage systems. This amendment is a part of a multiyear effort to address t