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Detroit : city of race and class violence / by B.J. Widick ; foreword by Horace L. Sheffield, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Widick, B. J.
- Series:
- Great Lakes Books Series
- Great Lakes books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Violence--Michigan--Detroit--History--20th century.
- Violence.
- Detroit (Mich.)--Race relations.
- Detroit (Mich.).
- Detroit (Mich.)--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (319 p.)
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1989.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This revised edition charts Detroit's bitter history of race and class violence, and its particular effect on the city today.
- Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface to the Great Lakes Books Edition""; ""Preface""; ""1. The Legacy of the KKK""; ""2. The Twenties: Industrial Tyranny and Plantation Politics""; ""3. The Depression and the Growth of Radicalism""; ""4. CIO Sitdowns: The Birth of Industrial Unionism""; ""5. Labor's Triumph: The Fall of Ford""; ""6. Unionism�A New Foothold for Negroes""; ""7. Wartime Detroit: Racial Tension Explodes""; ""8. McCarthyism and Vigilante Democracy, Detroit Style""; ""9. Postwar Reconstruction in Reutherland""; ""10. Mayor Cavanagh and the Limits of Reform""
- ""11. A City Besieged: The Riot of �67""""12. Post-Riot Reconstruction: The Failure of the Power Elite""; ""13. Detroit�Black Metropolis of the Future""; ""Epilogue: Detroit�A Reexamination""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814337646
- 0814337643
- OCLC:
- 849944857
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