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    Quote Originally Posted by Hermod View Post
    No, I went to three schools in Detroit from 1944 to 1954 and never went to school with a black kid. The only "non-whites" in the schools were a handful of Maronite Christian Lebanese. I never went to school with a black kid till we moved to Rochester and I went to Rochester High School 1954-1957.

    The janitors and lunch room staffs in the schools I went to were all white.

    It was called de facto segregation.
    Christ. No wonder you never encountered any kind of racism. 1954? Really? Sheesh.

    That's like comparing Detroit today to the 1920's for what it's worth.

    Here's an interesting site:
    http://faculty.washington.edu/gregor...ora/photos.htm

    Also this one:
    http://www.bentley.umich.edu/researc...ration/ch1.php
    Last edited by Stosh; July-28-10 at 04:13 PM.

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