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Author:

Bates, Beth Tompkins.

Title:

The making of Black Detroit in the age of Henry Ford / Beth Tompkins Bates.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xiii, 343 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Detroit--Detroit--History--20th century.
African Americans--Detroit--Detroit--Social conditions--20th century.
Migration, Internal--United States--History--20th century.
Detroit (Mich.)--Social conditions.
Detroit (Mich.)--Race relations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

With the wind at their backs : migration to Detroit -- Henry Ford ushers in a new era for Black workers -- The politics of inclusion and the construction of a new Detroit -- Drawing the color line in housing, 1915-1930 -- The politics of unemployment in depression-era Detroit, 1927-1931 -- Henry Ford at a crossroads : Inkster and the Ford Hunger March -- Behind the mask of civility: Black politics in Detroit, 1932-1935 -- Charting a new course for Black workers -- Black workers change tactics, 1937-1941.

ISBN:

0807835641 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807835647 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)780288679

LCCN:

2012007161

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)