It really kind of got kicked off from the Henry Louis Gates Great Migrations documentary series.

And we thought, you know what better way to tell the story of Detroit and and what better way to honor what is coming up as America 250, our 250th anniversary.

Then to tell Detroits story and the story of Southeast Michigan through the lens of all the people that came here, all looking for a better life, all looking to, you know, move up that ladder.

Right.

And so we enlisted the aid of our friends from the Detroit Historical Museum, my former home where my teams were located, and the Charles Wright to help us, you know, pull all these people.

Its an ambitious undertaking.

So we need partners.

We need help.

The Detroit Historical Society's mission is to tell Detroit stories and why they matter.

And, you know, core to that is how people came to be here at all through immigration and migration.

And those stories, through oral histories, are woven into the fabric of every single exhibit that we put together.

And our mission is also not to just tell some of the stories, but all of the stories of people from every background, which, you know, as you said, huge undertaking.

It doesn't matter where you came from.

If you're here in Detroit, you know, it was your hard work and your grit.

Everything that goes into telling the quintessential Detroit story that has become, you know, such a part of the fabric of what we are doing.

The Wright Museum, you know, founded now 60 years ago, really traces not just Detroit's history, but the history of African Americans in the United States.

And that history is very much so rooted in Detroit.

Can you take look at the period from 1910 to 1930... 1910, 6000 people lived in Detroit and, 1930, 120,000 people, primarily African-Americans, are living in the city of Detroit, along with several immigrants from other cultures, as we know.

Right.

So the Wright Museum tried to take those stories and again, from a lived perspective, not just something you read in a book, or someones analysis of the period, but really listening to the people who actually were here then.

Not in 1910.

But, you know, who have lived in this city, worked in the city and elevates those stories so that we have a complete perspective, I think, of what it meant to be in Detroit, to be from Detroit, and the impact Detroit has had on the United States.