Untold tales, unsung heroes : an oral history of Detroit's African American community, 1918-1967 / Elaine Latzman Moon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moon, Elaine Latzman.

Series:

African American Life Series

African American life series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Civil rights movements--Michigan--Detroit--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--Biography.

Detroit (Mich.)--Race relations.

Detroit (Mich.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c1994.

Summary:

More than one hundred individuals who lived in Detroit at some time during the period from 1918 to 1967 share stories about everyday life.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword ""; ""Preface ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Chronology: African Americans in Detroit to 1917 ""; ""African Americansin Detroit and the United States,1918-1927""; ""Oscar Lee ""; ""Rosa Lee Kirkman Wheeler ""; ""James E. Cummings ""; ""Helen Nuttall Brown ""; ""Frank Angelo ""; ""Discussion on Employment Opportunities ""

""Henry Biggs:""""Reginald R. Larrie:""; ""Paul B. Shirley ""; ""Charles C. Diggs, Jr. ""; ""Frederick N. Cureton ""; ""Ernest Goodman ""; ""Carl Winter ""; ""Alice E. M. Cain Newman ""; ""William Hines ""; ""M. Kelly Fritz ""; ""Sidney Barthwell ""; ""Lillian Duplessis ""

""Discussion with Second Baptist Church Members """"Arthur Michael Carter III""; ""Nathaniel Leach""; ""Wilhelmina Lewis Means""; ""Katherine E. Reid""; ""Ernestine E. Wright""; ""Discussion on Education ""; ""William St. Clair Billups""; ""Earlie M. Poole""; ""Shelton Tappes ""; ""African Americans in Detroit and the United States, 1928-1937""; ""Fred W. Guinyard ""; ""Ernestine E. Wright ""

""Dorothy Elizabeth Lawson """"Discussion with Shiloh Baptist Church Members ""; ""Mary Ruth Chapman Harris""; ""Marguerite Rhodes Mclntosh""; ""O. Davene Ross McKinney""; ""Dr. Mary O. Brookins Ross""; ""Discussion on the Labor Movement ""; ""HildredJ. Drew Dale""; ""Gwendolyn Ruth Edwards""; ""Hodges E. Mason""; ""Stanley Nowak""; ""John J. ""Jack"" White""; ""Walter Rosser ""; ""Ruth Wills-Clemons ""

""Discussion on Green Pastures Camp """"Eleanor Boykin Jones""; ""Ernest Timothy Marshall""; ""Cecil Whittaker McFadden""; ""James Boggs ""; ""Ernest C. Dillard, Sr. ""; ""Richard L. King ""; ""Margaret McCall Thomas Ward ""; ""Edward Davis ""; ""Kermit G. Bailer ""; ""Norman McRae ""; ""Beatrice M. Buck ""; ""African Americans in Detroit and the United States, 1938-1947""

""Marcena W. Taylor ""

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-8143-3849-6

OCLC:

846318648