Security Guards in Conant Gardens
Conant Gardens is in northeast Detroit, Michigan located just west of Detroit's Krainz Woods neighborhood. Houses were built in a variety of architectural styles including Tudor Revival and the Craftsmen style. It is located between Conant Street and the City of Highland Park, north of the City of Hamtramck. Seven Mile Road served as the boundary between Conant Gardens and a white working-class area. The neighborhood boundaries are Conant Street, East Seven Mile, Ryan Road, and East Nevada Street. It is located almost 8 miles from Paradise Valley.
Due to its proximity to Krainz Woods, that neighboring community is sometimes mistaken for being within Conant Gardens.
Conant Gardens is a historically Black neighborhood in northeast Detroit, Michigan. The neighborhood was once the most exclusive Black neighborhood in that city, and residents of Conant Gardens comprised the most highly educated Black enclave in Detroit.
The land where Conant Gardens now lies was once owned by Shubael Conant, an abolitionist and the founder and first president of the Detroit Anti-Slavery Society in 1837. In his will, he stated that, "blacks could purchase or build new homes on his northeastern Detroit property."
The area was not densely populated until around 1920, as growth of everything in and near Detroit related to the automobile industry soared. Conant Gardens' lack of restrictive covenants made it an appealing place for Black professionals to build homes. In 1942 and 1943, some in the primarily Black, middle-class community even protested the construction of the Sojourner Truth Housing project, a federally funded public housing project, for fear that a public housing project near their neighborhood would bring down their 'exclusive' status.
By the 1940s and 1950s, Conant Gardens was relatively well-populated. The residents were primarily Black businesspeople, lawyers, ministers, and teachers. In 1950, in terms of all neighborhoods with over 500 black people, the median income of black families and unrelated individuals of the tracts 603 and 604, respectively, were the highest in Detroit; the tracts correspond to Conant Gardens. That year, 60% of the residents owned their houses.
The Double V Bar, a jazz hall, opened in 1942. The Club Deliese, a jazz hall which was owned by Jewish people and had an African American manager, opened in 1945. It changed its name to the "Club El-Morocco" three years after its opening. Lars Bjorn and Jim Gallert, authors of Before Motown: A History of Jazz in Detroit, 1920-60, said that the club remained open until at least 1953 and that Deliese was "the more substantial jazz spot of the two."
Conant Gardens was the childhood home of Slum Village founding members J Dilla, Baatin, and T3, as well as frequent collaborator Waajeed. The neighborhood is immortalized in the song "Conant Gardens," from Fantastic Vol. 2.
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