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Detroit : city of race and class violence

Widick, B. J. (Author).

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  • OCLC: ocn849944857
  • ISBN: 9780814321041
  • ISBN: 0814321046
  • ISBN: 0814337643
  • ISBN: 9780814337646
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 291 pages)
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  • Edition: Rev. ed.
  • Publisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1989.

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Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 �6712. 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
Note: English.
Subject: Violence -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century
Detroit (Mich.) -- Race relations
Detroit (Mich.) -- Politics and government

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