Cass Corridor

“It is no accident that the Cass Corridor phenomenon occurred during a time when the younger generations were attempting to reinvent politics, culture, and morality in America in a politically-charged era that included the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X, the rise of drug-guru Timothy Leary, the imagery of war in Viet Nam on nightly television, and the killings at Kent State University. Following the anticommunist witchhunts of the McCarthy era, the Civil Rights struggles of the fifties and sixties, and the disillusionment with conformist suburban mythologies, the powerful sense of community established in the Cass Corridor produced an explosive synergistic energy and intense creative flowering.” (Dora Apel, Ph.D., Art and the Industrial City)