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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.