Black Bottom Street View exhibition request

“Black Bottom Street View is a project to visualize and help preserve the history of Detroit’s historic Black Bottom neighborhood.

It is our mission is to build a platform for sharing family and community histories, and to promote the legacy of Black Bottom and the impact its residents have had on the city of Detroit and the whole of contemporary culture. We hope that Black Bottom Street View will help to make its history more visible for all of us—and that a better understanding of this history will teach us something about the current forms of displacement that are shaping Detroit today.”

Black Bottom Archives manages the Black Bottom Street View exhibit. This exhibit is available to rent and BBA can be requested to curate events around the exhibition. Contact us for more information about this offering.

BBA is also available to facilitate workshops and presentations around topics such as digital archiving and historical preservation, community storytelling, grassroots archival projects, community development & displacement, and creative writing workshops. If you have a request for a specific presentation or workshop, fill out the form below and we’ll let you know if it’s something we can offer!

Fill out the form below to make a request or ask any questions you may have.

The full Black Bottom Street View exhibition consists of:

  • Panoramas composed of over 2,000 photographs, showing 20 blocks of Black Bottom

  • 32 portals made of plywood, and attached together with metal poles and cables

  • A large map that shows all of Black Bottom in 1951

  • Two large occupiable “porches” that can be used as stages

Black Bottom Street View exhibit at the Detroit Public Library Main Branch, 2018

Black Bottom Street View exhibition request form