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A Segregation Wall Has Stood In Detroit For 80 Years. Residents Don't Want it Taken Down.
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9:36Now PlayingIn 1941, a developer in Detroit built the Birwood Wall, a barrier meant to separate Black residents from white residents. Eighty years later, it’s now believed to be one of the last physical relics of segregation in the North, and it is leaving behind a legacy much larger than its original intent.
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