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Detroit : a biography / Scott Martelle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martelle, Scott, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans.
- History.
- Detroit (Mich.)--History.
- Detroit (Mich.).
- Detroit (Mich.)--Economic conditions.
- Detroit (Mich.)--Population.
- African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--History.
- Michigan--Detroit.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 288 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Chicago Review Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- "Detroit: A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities, and one of the nation's greatest urban failures. It tells how the city grew to become the heart of American industry and how its utter collapse--from 1.8 million residents in 1950 to 714,000 only six decades later--resulted from a confluence of public policies, private industry decisions, and deep, thick seams of racism. And it raises the question: when we look at modern-day Detroit, are we looking at the ghost of America's industrial past or its future?" --Publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 A Difficult Childhood 1
- 2 The British Decades 9
- Detroiters I The Morans 19
- 3 Detroit and the Canal of Riches 25
- 4 The Civil War and Racial Flashpoints 35
- 5 Detroit Turns Industrial 53
- Detroiters II Michael Farrell 63
- 6 The Auto Era 69
- 7 A Great Migration 85
- 8 The Roaring Twenties 95
- 9 Great Depression 113
- 10 The Black Legion 127
- 11 Housing and the Racial Divide 133
- 12 The War Years 139
- 13 The 1943 Riot 147
- 14 The Postwar Boom 159
- 15 Race in the Fifties 171
- Detroiters III Henry Russell Jr. 181
- 16 Death of the Covenants 187
- Detroiters IV The Baloks 199
- 17 The Oil Embargo 205
- Detroiters V John Thompson 215
- 18 When the Jobs Go Away 225
- Detroiters VI Shelley 237
- 19 Pittsburgh, a Different Case 243
- 20 An Epilogue 251.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Herman V. Ames Fund.
- ISBN:
- 156976526X
- 9781569765265
- OCLC:
- 756377619
- Publisher Number:
- 99948134432
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