{"id":2425,"date":"2017-03-02T12:55:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T17:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:33","slug":"recreating-black-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/02\/recreating-black-bottom\/","title":{"rendered":"Recreating Black Bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2428\" style=\"width: 659px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2428\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2428\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BlackBottom-e1489362600533.jpg\" alt=\"BW photo of woman walking along the street in Detroit's Black Bottom.\" width=\"649\" height=\"497\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this historical photo, a woman walks along\u00a0Lafayette St. on July 22, 1949 in Black Bottom before it was torn down in the 1950s. Black Bottom was home to many of\u00a0Detroit&#8217;s African Americans. (Burton Collection)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From World War I through the 1940s, the Black Bottom neighborhood was the heart and soul of Detroit&#8217;s\u00a0African-American community.\u00a0Then, in the early 1950s, the area was bulldozed in the name of \u201cslum clearance\u201d and eventually\u00a0replaced with the Chrysler Freeway and Lafayette Park. <strong>Emily Kutil<\/strong>, a Detroit architect with a master\u2019s degree in architecture from U-M, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/detroit\/2017\/02\/27\/detroit-black-bottom-neighborhood\/98354122\/\">hopes to help preserve the memory of\u00a0this\u00a0once vibrant center of African-American commerce and culture<\/a>. Her discovery\u00a0of about 800 rarely seen photos in the Detroit Public Library\u2019s Burton Historical Collection inspired her to build a website that will recreate a virtual, interactive Black Bottom. Her site also will serve as a platform to collect former residents\u2019 oral histories. \u201cJust to realize that that archive exists was amazing,\u201d Kutil said. \u201cIt needs to be made public. There is so much family history, and neighborhood history and community history that has been erased in Detroit. I want to give people some sort of infrastructure to share those histories.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From World War I through the 1940s, the Black Bottom neighborhood was the heart and soul of Detroit&#8217;s\u00a0African-American community.\u00a0Then, in the early 1950s, the area was bulldozed in the name of \u201cslum clearance\u201d and eventually\u00a0replaced with the Chrysler Freeway and Lafayette Park. Emily Kutil, a Detroit architect with a master\u2019s degree in architecture from U-M, hopes to help\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/02\/recreating-black-bottom\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[217,111,128],"class_list":["post-2425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-culture","tag-web","tag-xr"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BlackBottom-e1489362600533.jpg",649,497,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BlackBottom-e1489362580335-125x96.jpg",125,96,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BlackBottom-e1489362580335-300x230.jpg",300,230,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BlackBottom-768x576.jpg",665,499,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BlackBottom-700x525.jpg",600,450,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BlackBottom-e1489362600533.jpg",649,497,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BlackBottom-e1489362600533.jpg",649,497,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BlackBottom-e1489362580335-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BlackBottom-e1489362580335-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BlackBottom-e1489362580335-649x300.jpg",649,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BlackBottom-665x499.jpg",665,499,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BlackBottom-e1489362600533.jpg",326,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"From World War I through the 1940s, the Black Bottom neighborhood was the heart and soul of Detroit&#8217;s\u00a0African-American community.\u00a0Then, in the early 1950s, the area was bulldozed in the name of \u201cslum clearance\u201d and eventually\u00a0replaced with the Chrysler Freeway and Lafayette Park. 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