Oppression and Privilege

Right there, along a two-block stretch in the heart of one of the country’s most storied metropolises, lies a history of pride, struggle, and perseverance that is symbolic of an entire nation. 

In its infancy and at first glance, Detroit’s Birchwood Street didn’t resonate much differently than any other in the once typically race and income mixed neighborhood born of the early 1940s: whites lived on one side and blacks the other, the boundaries divided by a 6 foot tall, and a foot thick wall known as “Detroit’s Wailing Wall.”