Summary:
During the year the Detroit Children’s Museum was founded, the United States entered World War I, lynchings and mass racial violence were prevalent in America, including the East Saint Louis Race Massacre, the Houston Riots, and the Chester (Pennsylvania) Race Riot. Closer to home, fueled by the growth of the automotive industry, Detroit was on its way to becoming one of the nation’s most populated cities, which brought growing pains in the form of housing shortages and racial tensions.
That was 1917.
So it is with a bit of poignant irony that as the Detroit Children’s Museum — 6134 Second Ave. — prepares to fully reopen to the public after years of limited access, it is doing so at a time when national and international affairs are about as turbulent as any time in the museum’s history. But that also is exactly why the museum’s return to the public could not come at a better time, says the head of an entity that has helped to make it possible.
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