From Lansing to Black Bottom: The Impact of Urban Renewal

Name: From Lansing to Black Bottom: The Impact of Urban Renewal
Start: 2025-10-23T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-23T15:00:00-04:00
Location: 702 W Kalamazoo St, Lansing, MI, United States, Michigan 48915

Schedule

Thu Oct 23 2025 at 01:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

702 W Kalamazoo St, Lansing, MI, United States, Michigan 48915 | Lansing, MI

Twentieth century urban renewal practices had a profound impact on neighborhoods across Michigan. Two of them, Lansing’s Westside and Detroit’s Black Bottom, saw the destruction of homes, businesses and community institutions for the building of new highways. Learn the stories of those neighborhoods during “From Lansing to Black Bottom: The Impact of Urban Renewal,” a program at the Michigan History Center, on October 23, 2025, from 1-3 p.m.
The program will include screenings of oral history interviews from the Black Bottom Archives and the Historical Society of Greater Lansing’s documentary called, “They Even Took the Dirt,” as well as a panel discussion with former residents from both neighborhoods.
This event, co-hosted by the Black Bottom Archives and the Historical Society of Greater Lansing, is free and open to the public.