After decades, Hamtramck, Michigan, completes a civil rights housing settlement with the last home delivery.
After a 1968 lawsuit accused Hamtramck, Michigan, of intentionally destroying Black neighborhoods, the city agreed to build 200 homes for victims or their families. Leslie Knox, a retired nurse, is one of the last to move into a new house under this settlement, marking a closure of one of the US's longest-running civil rights housing cases. Mayor Amer Ghalib says the city, now diverse with a Muslim-majority council, pledges to prevent such discrimination in the future.
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