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Great idea for a future park in The Motor City
...to memorialize victims of The Ford Massacre.
The Fort Street Bridge Park will, hopefully, someday be dedicated to those who participated and died in the 1932 Ford Hunger March, also known as the Ford Massacre.
The massacre happened on an intensely cold March day. More than 6,000 unemployed former auto workers walked from Detroit to Dearborn, where the Ford Motor Company world headquarters still sits to this day. Frank Murphy, then mayor of Detroit, allowed them to pass peacefully through the streets.
But when the unemployed workers hit the Detroit-Dearborn city limits, they were met with intense pushback from police and from Ford’s own thuggish private security force. Even Ford’s right hand man, Henry Bennet, was spotted emptying his gun into the crowd. Police used water cannons and machine guns to push the protesters back.
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https://jalopnik.com/why-a-detroit-park-to-commemorate-the-ford-massacre-is-1819613340
The massacre happened on an intensely cold March day. More than 6,000 unemployed former auto workers walked from Detroit to Dearborn, where the Ford Motor Company world headquarters still sits to this day. Frank Murphy, then mayor of Detroit, allowed them to pass peacefully through the streets.
But when the unemployed workers hit the Detroit-Dearborn city limits, they were met with intense pushback from police and from Ford’s own thuggish private security force. Even Ford’s right hand man, Henry Bennet, was spotted emptying his gun into the crowd. Police used water cannons and machine guns to push the protesters back.
Continued here:
https://jalopnik.com/why-a-detroit-park-to-commemorate-the-ford-massacre-is-1819613340
They've reached all but a quarter million of their $650,000 goal, including $100k from Ford.
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