Legal Opinion
Sarah Sims Garrett v. City of Hamtramck, a Municipal Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 26, 1974No. 73-1862, 73-1863PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIVELY, Circuit Judge.
This civil rights action is concerned with the urban renewal activities of the City of Hamtramck, Michigan, which is surrounded by the City of Detroit on three sides and the City of Highland Park on the fourth, and contains slightly more than two square miles of area. It is located in a highly industrialized area with a population largely of Polish extraction. The non-white population of the City never exceeded 15 percent during the period involved in this litigation and this percentage decreased between 1960 and the trial of this action. Most of the Negro residents of…
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