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02350aam a2200373Ia 4500 001 879F88DC29C311E499A8AD93DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140822010437 008 130923s2014 nyu 000 f eng d 020 $a 1605985732 020 $a 9781605985732 035 $a (OCoLC)858843461 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d WIM $d OCLCO $d DYJ $d GK8 $d IEP $d OCLCO $d IHI $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PS3563.O873975 $b M67 2014 082 04 $a [Fic] 100 1 $a Morris, Bill, $d 1952- 245 10 $a Motor City burning / $c Bill Morris. 260 $a New York : $b Pegasus Books, $c 2014. 300 $a 321 pages ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a "Willie Bledsoe, once an idealistic young black activist, is now a burnt-out case. After leaving a snug berth at Tuskegee Institute to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, he has become bitterly disillusioned with the civil rights movement and its leaders. He returns home to Alabama to try to write a memoir about his time in the cultural whirlwind, but the words fail to come. The surprise return of his Vietnam veteran brother in the spring of 1967 gives Willie a chance to drive a load of smuggled guns to the Motor City - and make enough money to jump-start his stalled dream of writing his movement memoir. There, at Tiger Stadium on Opening Day of the 1968 baseball season - postponed two days in deference to the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. - Willie learns some terrifying news: the Detroit police are still investigating the last unsolved murder from the bloody, apocalyptic riot of the previous summer, and a white cop named Frank Doyle will not rest until the case is solved. And Willie is his prime suspect" -- $c from publisher's web site. 650 0 $a African American political activists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a African Americans $z Detroit $z Detroit $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Detroit (Mich.) $x Race relations $v Fiction. 651 0 $a United States $x History $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Historical fiction. 941 $a 5 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204073959.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110055914.0 952 $l MMPE553 $d 20180719042620.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20141114012110.0 952 $l AXPF626 $d 20141016010222.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=879F88DC29C311E499A8AD93DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWRInitiate Another SILO Locator Search