Detroit wasn't always a "black" city. It's just that almost everyone else has left nowadays. Your average assembly line back then would have been 90% white, sin

Detroit wasn't always a "black" city. It's just that almost everyone else has left nowadays. Your average assembly line back then would have been 90% white, since that would have been roughly the racial makeup of America. Henry Ford was actually much more open about hiring black employees than most of his contemporaries: http://apps.detnews.com/apps/history/index.php?id=19 http://apps.detnews.com/apps/history/index.php?id=19 (Jews, on the other hand, were out of luck)