The Walls All these walls still in existence as of August/September 2009. While staring at a segment of the Berlin Wall on display at the Seattle Center in Seattle Washington, a homeless man commented,

"Perhaps the people of Detroit should send a piece of 'their' wall to the people of Berlin." --anonymous, 2012

Border of Detroit and Grosse Point Park illustrating the abandonment of the city.

Source: Google Maps [ ] (11/23/07) Walls erected on several residential streets that use to run unhindered between Detroit and Grosse Point Park.

Location of "The Walls".

Source: BOUNDARY AND ANNEXATION SURVEY (BAS): Grosse Pointe Park city, MI (12600035540), US Census Bureau.





Korte Ave. Wall

Source: Google Maps [ ] (11/13/11)



Brooks St. Wall

Source: Google Maps [ ] (11/13/11)



Goethe Ave. Wall

Source: Google Maps [ ] (11/13/11)





Wayburn Wall

Source: Google Maps [ ] (11/13/11) Wall erected near 8 Mile and Wyoming in the 1940's to separate White residents on the west side from the Black residents that were living on the east side. Developers erected the wall to get FHA mortgage guarantees and loans.

Location of "Wyoming Wall".

Source: Google Maps [ ] (2/13/12) The kiss, the wall & other true tales, Metro Times, 5/15/2002 [ ] (2/13/12) Sugrue, Thomas J., The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit, Princeton University Press, Princeton & Oxford, 2005.





Various pictures of "Wyoming Wall" along its remaining length.

Source: Google Maps [ ] (2/13/12)



2010 US Census Data for Tri-County are that includes Detroit (Wayne Oakland, and Macomb counties) Source: Census 2010 Population, Information on Census population change by race from 2000 to 2010 for every county and community in Southeast Michigan. [ ] (1/31/2012)

Detroit Public School Race Demographic Data, latest published as of 2/2012 Surprisingly, the above data shows that even with the vast majority of students in the district being Black, that there are still segregated schools. This is most evident in the the 14 schools where Hispanics are in the majority. These few schools contain the vast majority of the Hispanic student population. Source: Combined School Profile Reports, Detroit Public Schools, School Profile Reports [ ] (2/12/2012)