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White detroit residents got one of their u.s. senators, a democratic senator to lead an effort t in washington to decla that new housing built in detroit for defense plant workers would be whites only housing. and that effort in washington actually seemed liked it would work for a while before it didn t, because they sort of clawed it back. ultimately it was black families in detroit who moved into some of the new housing. white residents put up this billboard across from some of that newhi housing. as you can see here, we want white tenants in our white community. the american flags they put up there in the corners of the sign, isn t that a nice touch? that wast february, 1942. because in february of 1942, february 28, to be exact, two dozen blacko families, again these are families of workers at the new defense plants, two dozen african american families ....
0 of the democratic story. heather mcghee, has always, great to hear from you. thank you so much. that is all in for this night. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. night. the rachel maddow show begins rightth now. happy to m have you here. in world war, two when the united states needed to quickly ramp up production of war-time material, planes, tanks, guns, ammunition, uniforms, everything, the government opened defense productionev facilities all over the country. factories. they retooled existing ones or builtet new ones and in some places where there were particularly large defense production facilities, either a large number of retooled plants or a bunch of new ones that were built, one of the things that emerged pretty quickly as a bottleneck for our country mobilizing for the war was the conundrum of where all of the workers would live in the newly rebuilt and newly re-tooled production plants. in an already crowded city like detroit for example ....