the fall of Detroit "by the time the keys to Detroit were handed to the Black leadership, Detroit was beyond rescue "

" Flush with cash from World War II and anticipating a huge growth in demand for their products, Ford, General Motors and Chrysler abandoned Detroit's multi-story plants abandoned in favor of new sprawling horizontal campuses on former farmland in the Detroit suburbs and in Ohio, Indiana and Canada. Between 1947 and 1958, the Big Three built 25 new factories.
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" None of them were in Detroit."

". In less than two decades, from 1947 to 1967, Detroit lost 128,000 jobs in the auto industry alone."