Turning now to Destination Detroit, our series that explores the region's rich history and the people who helped shape it.

Metro Detroit resident Sandra McKoy shares how her grandmother came here from Georgia and made professional and personal strides as an African American woman living in Detroit.

Marie.

My family came to Detroit in the 50s from Georgia.

My grandmother came first.

Unfortunately, she, was a single parent, and she ended up having her children stay until she got settled.

And when she got settled, she sent for her two sons.

Who's my father?

She actually came to finish her education in college.

She was a graduate of Wayne State University, and she graduated in a, with a degree in teaching.

So she taught for a while.

And after she talks to, ended up getting hired by the, city of Detroit as what they would call a bus driver.

You know, I'm not sure.

Didn't have too many bus drivers that were female.

And she ended up working for the city of Detroit as a matron in the women's jails.

I believe that my my grandmother initially settled in the Black Bottom area, and when it was, you know, dissolved.

She ended up moving over in, I think the North End area.

And eventually she moved from the North End area to the Boston Edison area in 1955.

And she lived there, too.

She was 102 years old.

She was always a person that was, she was quiet, but she was very, you know, thoughtful about, you know, how she wanted to raise her family and how she wanted to, you know, have something of substance.

You know, during that time, because you can imagine in 1955, it probably wasn't a lot of black females who owned homes in the Boston Edison area.

You know, as a family, we really take pride in our history.

And, you know, what it take to, you know, what it took at that time to survive.

I actually started on this assembly line, and I worked my way up, to a union position in the international UAW, and I retired as an international representative with the UAW.

I think the auto industry really provided my family with a basis of security and, being able to, you know, find jobs.

And and because of those jobs we had, we were able to educate our children and they were able to get degrees.

And they were.

And my grandchildren are Korean in, in college.

So I think it's just a legacy that I am proud of.

And Detroit will always be my home, whether I stay inside the city or outside the city.

And, born and raised in Detroit.

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