ABSTRACT
On an April evening in 1977 an ABC News camera crew photographed Ruby Clark, a Black woman, walking down the street of her Ferndale neighborhood near Detroit, Michigan. The clip was used to promote Sex for Sale: The Urban Battleground-a program that aired as part of the ABC News Close-Up series. Shortly before her appearance on television, the narrator reported that most of the women in the neighborhood were prostitutes, stating: ‘According to residents, and Detroit police records most of the prostitutes, customers or johns were white; the street prostitutes were often black. This integrated middle class neighborhood became a safe meeting place for prostitutes and ‘johns.’”
