Many of them told us the stories about how they came to own their home through their grandparents or great-grandparents, who were one of 1.6 million people who migrated from the rural South to the industrial North, as depicted in this painting by Jacob Lawrence, "The Great Migration." They came to Detroit for a better way of life.
Muchos de ellos nos contaron historias de cómo llegaron a tener su casa a través de sus abuelos o bisabuelos, alguno de los 1,6 millones de personas que emigraron desde el Sur rural al Norte industrial, tal como se ve en esta pintura de Jacob Lawrence, "La gran migración". Ellos vinieron a Detroit para tener una vida mejor.