Same thing happened to Mumford, but about five years earlier, and same thing happened to Redford, but about 10 years later.
Just to illustrate I know someone who attended Henry Ford High on the NW side and I think the school was basically entirely white in the late 60's and entirely black by the mid 70's. Everything to the north and west was white.
In 1970 I think the West Side was mostly black south of say McNichols and east of the Southfield Fwy. There was basically a "line" of black advancement outward, and so every year the black neighborhoods grew and white neighborhoods shrunk. The retail corridors were still all intact, but started suffering terminal decline. The city was much busier and more vibrant than now, but everything was going downhill fast. The black neighborhoods were in the core, and the white neighborhoods were on the fringes. I wasn't around, but there was little abandonment in the 1970's.
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