As the Roaring Twenties came to an end and a new decade dawned, the United States found itself in the grips of the Great Depression. The City of Detroit was no exception as industry laid off workers and bread lines formed across the city. Detroit Mayor Frank Murphy led the country in supporting state and federal welfare programs to help people through the crisis. By the middle of the 1930s, Detroit began picking itself up out of the economic mud and was soon fl exing its industrial muscle as manufacturing, led by the auto industry, put the Motor City back into shape. As the decade ended and war approached, the city was ready to take its place on the world stage. The historic photographs in this volume, borrowed from the Burton Historical Collection of the Detroit Public Library, attempt to chronicle the history of the City of Detroit during these decades of change and growth. In Detroit 1930–1969, join author David Lee Poremba on a visual tour of the city’s most intriguing twentieth-century history.