Black Detroiters started shifting out of a rigid segregation era starting in the late 1950s. There was swelling of the population and the industry of auto was booming in a continuous manner. Positive signs were coming from cash cow industry of Detroit. White middle class started to shift to the areas surrounding the Southeast Michigan. This arrived as a reaction to the white growing opposition to the social mobility of Black as resentment was displayed by the Whites towards neighborhoods of theirs, being attacked by the people who were colored.