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The Church and the City: Detroit's Open Housing THE CHURCH AND THE CITY: DETROIT’S OPEN HOUSING MOVEMENT by Lloyd D. Buss A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (American Culture) in the University of Michigan 2008 Doctoral Committee: Professor Frances X. Blouin, Chair Professor Philip Deloria Professor Susan Juster Associate Professor Scott Kurashige TABLE OF CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS…………………………………………………………………….iii. TIME LINE……………………………………………………………………………..iv ABSTRACT……………………………..…………………………………………….viii CHAPTER INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………..…...1 ONE…Detroit Awakened to Racial Discrimination…….….……….……….…18 TWO…City Influences Religion’s Response………………………….……….67 THREE…The Metropolitan Conference on Open Occupancy: Challenge to Conscience…………………………………………………….……123 FOUR…Danish Lutherans Adapt Themselves to Detroit……………….…….187 FIVE…Danish Lutheranism Moderates Parish Participation..…………...……240 . SIX…Summary Finis…………………………………………………………..287 APPENDIX…...…….……………………….…………………………………………309 INTERVIEWS…………………………………………………………………………318 ARTICLES……………………………………………………………………………..320 BIBLIOGRAPHY……………………………………………………………………. .329 ii ABBREVIATIONS AELC American Evangelical Lutheran Church (Danish) AULA Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Detroit, MI BHL Bentley Historical Library, Ann Arbor, MI CCR Commission on Community Relations CCHR Coordinating Council on Human Relations DCC Detroit Council of Churches 1919—1962. DHC Detroit Housing Commission DDHC Division of Defense Housing Coordination DPL Detroit Public Library, Burton Collection DREB Detroit Real Estate Board FCC Federal Council of Churches FWA Federal Works Agency GDCFHP Greater Detroit Commission Fair Housing Practices HOLC Home Owners Loan Corporation IPUMS Integrated Public Use Microdata Series JCLU Joint Commission for Lutheran Unity LCA Lutheran Church in America MDCC Metropolitan Detroit Council of Churches 1962 to 1976 MCOO:CC Metropolitan Conference on Open Occupancy: Challenge to Conscience MIC Mayor’s Interracial Committee NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NCDP National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing NLC National Lutheran Council NCCCUSA National Council of the Churches of Christ, USA UCLA United Lutheran Church in America YMCA Young Men’s Christian Association iii TIME LINE—MAJOR EVENTS 1701 Founding of Fort Ponchartrain, later named Detroit. 1808 Importation of slaves banned, but illegal trade continues. 1825 Erie Canal completed. 1827 Michigan required all African Americans to have a valid certificate of freedom from slavery. 1837 First constitution of Michigan forbids slavery. 1850 Michigan rejects “Equal Suffrage for Col’d Persons”. 1855 Michigan enacts “personal liberty law”: County jails may not be used to imprison refugees from slavery. 1863 President Lincoln issues “Emancipation Proclamation”. 1866 Federal Civil Rights law makes racial discrimination in sale/purchase of housing illegal, but provides no enactment. 1867 MI legislature enacts law prescribing racial equality in MI school districts. 1868 Fourteenth Amendment enacted making African Americans full citizens. 1870 Fifteenth Amendment enacted. 1882 St. Peter’s Danish Lutheran Church organized. 1885 MI enacts Act 130 known as Civil Rights Act. 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson U.S. Supreme Court decision approves “separate but equal” doctrine of Act 130. 1899 Detroit’s first auto show. 1900 Detroit population: 285,704…4,111 African Americans. iv 1901 Detroit’s street railway and interurban operations consoled- ated into privately owned company 1904 Detroit Auto Industry is World’s Largest. 1904 St. Peter’s moves from East Side to Vermont and Caroline. 1910 Detroit population: 465,766…5,741 African Americans. 1914 Ford’s $5.00 per day wage begins. 1916 Detroit Urban League organized by Forrester Washington. 1918 John Dancy succeeds Forrester Washington as head of DUL. 1920 Detroit population: 993, 678….40,838 African Americans. 1922 Detroit’s streetcar operation taken over by Department Of Street Railways. 1925 Mob attacks Ossian Sweet home on Garland Street. 1926 Mayor John Smith creates Mayor’s Interracial Committee. 1926 Sven Jorgensen installed as Pastor of St. Peter’s. 1930 Detroit population: 1,568,662…120,066 African Americans. 1937 First sit-down (vs. walk off) strike against cigar industry. 1940 Detroit population: 1,623,452…149,119 African Americans. 1940 Davison freeway….first US urban depressed freeway. 1941 Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8802 prohibiting dis- crimination and established the FEPC. 1941—42 Sojourner Truth Housing Project 1943 Detroit Race Riot. 1948 Shelley v. Kraemer ruled restrictive covenants illegal. v 1948--1951 Schoolcraft Gardens Housing Project. 1950 Detroit population: 1,849,568...300,506 African Americans. 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka U.S. Supreme Court decision rules racial segregation in public schools illegal. 1955 MI enacts Fair Employment Practices Act. 1955 St. Peter’s relocates to Pembroke and Greenfield. 1957 Howard Christensen installed as Pastor of St. Peter’s. 1957 Joint Statement by Roman Catholics, Jews and Protestants Re: Housing Discrimination. 1958 Detroit’s CCR hosts conference on “Churches Role in Neighborhood Changes”. 1960 Detroit population: 1,670,144...482,229 African Americans. 1960—1963 NCCCUSA’s Southern Project, Will Campbell, Director. 1960 Grosse Pointe “Point System” Uncovered. 1961-62 Michigan Constitutional Convention. 1962 Merger creates Lutheran Church in America. 1963 (Jan. 2-3) Metropolitan Conference on Open Occupancy: Challenge to Conscience. 1963 (Jan. 16-18) Chicago Conference on Race and Religion. 1963 (June 23) Martin Luther King, Jr. leads Freedom March in Detroit “I Have A Dream” speech. 1963 (July) Jim Garrison installed as Pastor of St. Peter’s. 1963 (Summer) MDCC creates Commission on Race and Human Relations. 1963 (Aug 28) DC Freedom March…King’s “I Have A Dream” speech. vi 1963 (October 3) Michigan Attorney General rules Civil Rights Commission the sole authority to enforce civil rights in housing. 1963 (October 6) Detroit Common Council defeats Patrick/Ravitz resolution on Open Occupancy, 7 to 2. 1964 MI establishes Civil Rights Commission. 1964 (Sept. 1) Detroit passes Homeowners’ Rights Council Ordinance…never enacted, declared unconstitutional. 1967 (July) Blind pig raid initiates week-long riot. 1967 (Dec) Hood’s Open Housing ordinance blocked by 100,000 Signatures. 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated in Memphis, TN. 1970 Detroit population: 1,511,482…660,428 African Americans. 1972 Peter Thomsen installed as Pastor of St. Peter’s. 1973 Coleman Young elected Mayor of Detroit. 1980 Detroit population: 1,203,339…777,916 African Americans. 1982 St. Peter’s merges with Gethsemane Lutheran Church in Berkley, MI. vii ABSTRACT The Church and the City: Detroit’s Open Housing Movement Lloyd D. Buss Chair: Francis X. Blouin The church is an integrating feature of the city, and both are important for each other. The withdrawal of white congregations from Detroit’s racially changing neighborhoods following W.W. II created a moral crisis. Detroit’s post WWI population growth had created new demands for housing and intensified the practice of racial discrimination against African Americans in the sale and purchase of housing. With open occupancy initially included with New Deal Housing Programs, opposition to public housing programs spawned attention to the extensive practice of racial discrimination and segregated housing. Having been silent against racial discrimination Detroit’s religious community and Detroit’s Commission of Community Relations joined together in hosting the Metropolitan Conference on Open Occupancy: A Challenge to Conscience in 1963 to address the issue of racial discrimination Without the Conference creating a joint program to continue attention and action, the Detroit Council of Churches combined the conference recommendations with their ongoing programs, and sought additional funding for additional staff and program support from its member denominations. Unable to secure additional funding or achieve an institutional ecumenical consensus, member viii denominations combined conference recommendations with their own and sought to make them operative within their member congregations. The net effect of the church and city engagement against racial discrimination was the assignation of continued action to denominational member congregations in their neighborhoods. The issue was to be addressed by congregation and neighborhood. St. Peter’s Danish Lutheran Church was enjoined in these efforts through their pastor and their denominational affiliation. A parish organized by and for Danish immigrant to serve the Danish immigrant population in Detroit, St. Peter’s was a city-wide parish with a scattered membership through-out metro Detroit. Failing in its attempt to reach out and engage the neighborhood surrounding its facility on Pembroke and Greenfield, congregational opposition to racial discrimination was channeled through the activities of the clergy with the approval of the congregation. The clerical and denominational emphasis on a prophetic ministry for social justice contrasted with the congregational priority for a pastoral and educational ministry to the widely scattered second and third generation membership. Neither was rejected, but in 1982 St. Peter’s left Detroit to merge with a Scandinavian parish in suburban Berkley and continue its purposeful ministry to its second, third and fourth generation Danish residents in the
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