Ypsilanti's African-American School Children: Historic Photos 1880 - 1955

Visit the website South Adams Street @ 1900 southadamstree... for much more on Ypsilanti's historic African-American south-side neighborhood. With roots dating back to before the Civil War and engaged in the struggle for freedom since, Ypsilanti was, for generations, the most black, by percentage, Michigan city and was a center of black life in the Great Lakes.