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Title Detroit, I do mind dying : a study in urban revolution / Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin ; [foreword by Manning Marable].
Author Georgakas, Dan.
Publication Info. Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, 2012.
Edition 3rd ed.

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 Purdy-Kresge Library  F 574 .D4 G46 2012    LIB USE ONLY
 Storage Blue  F 574 .D4 G46 2012    LIB USE ONLY
Description xx, 254 p. ; 22 cm.
Note "An updated edition of the classic account of revolutionary Black workers in Detroit."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-238) and index.
Filmography: p. 238.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the third edition -- Introduction to the first edition -- James Johnson: a prologue -- Inner city voice -- Our thing is DRUM -- We will take the hard line -- League of Revolutionary Black Workers -- Niggermation at Eldon -- Finally got the news -- Black Workers Congress -- Stop the robberies, enjoy safe streets: STRESS -- Mr Justin Ravitz, Marxist judge of Recorder' Court -- 54-hour week -- Thirty years later -- Legacy of DRUM: four histories -- Further reading -- Index.
Summary Overview: Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as they became two of the landmark political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely heralded as one the most important books on the black liberation movement.
Subject African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social conditions.
African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Politics and government.
African American automobile industry workers -- Michigan -- Detroit.
African American labor union members -- Political activity -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Working class -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social conditions.
Working class -- Political activity -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Racism in the workplace -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Race relations.
Radicalism -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Social movements -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement.
League of Revolutionary Black Workers.
Added Author Surkin, Marvin. Author.
Marable, Manning, 1950-2011. Author of introduction.
Added Title Study in urban revolution
Standard No. 818843366
ISBN 9781608462216
1608462218
OCLC # 783151666
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