It took 40 years for justice

More than 40 years after her family was forced from their home to make room for whites, Michigan resident Sallie Sanders received vindication.  She now holds the keys to a new house built to settle one of the longest-running cases of housing discrimination in the United States.  In 1971 a judge ruled the city of Hamtramck, Michigan showed a clear agenda by forcing Blacks to move out from its city limits.  In 1980, the city agreed in 1980 to develop 200 family housing units to make up for violating the civil rights of blacks whose neighborhoods were targeted by white officials to make way for urban renewal projects in the 1960s.  They started building some of the units, but did not begin construction on others until 2004, more than 24 years after the agreement was reached.  Now, 60-year-old Sanders and four children are moving into a brand new 4 bedroom $164,000 home.  Justice at last.

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