Detroit

Detroit Early blues in Detroit established itself in the predominantly African American neighborhoods that sprang up as a result of the migration that became possible after World War I. A census of Detroit in 1910 recorded only 5,741 African Americans in the city but by 1920 this figure had grown to more than 40,000. The majority of new arrivals took up residence in Black Bottom replacing the Jewish immigrants who had preceded them. By 1937, Paradise Valley, as it had become known, was firmly…