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Segregation Challenged on a Football Saturday

Detroit Free Press
October 26, 2007
by Barry Checkoway, University of Michigan professor of social work and urban planning.

While more than 110,000 football fans filled Michigan Stadium for a homecoming game, a group of white suburban and black neighborhood youths marched down Woodward Avenue in Detroit with signs: "Challenge segregation ... Increase dialogue ... Create change."

The white youths were from Allen Park High School, a Downriver suburb populated by many employees of Ford Motor Co. The black youths were from Youthville, a youth center in northwest Detroit.

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