Detroit's Paradise Valley
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Join historian and Detroit resident Ernest H. Borden as he documents one of the most prominent and dynamic African-American neighborhoods in U.S. history
Paradise Valley served as a social and cultural mecca for Detroit's black community from the 1920s through the 1950s. Now the site of stadiums and freeways, the area was once home to places like the Gotham Hotel and the Surf Club, and welcomed the likes of Billie Holiday, Joe Louis, and Sammy Davis Jr. This book uses more than 200 previousl...
























