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The making of Black Detroit in the age of Henry Ford [electronic resource] / Beth Tompkins Bates.

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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

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Description	343 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series	eBook Academic Collection - North America
	eBook Business Collection - North America
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-333) and index.
Contents	With the wind at their backs : migration to Detroit -- Henry Ford ushers in a new era for Black workers -- The politics of inclusion and the construction of a new Detroit -- Drawing the color line in housing, 1915-1930 -- The politics of unemployment in depression-era Detroit, 1927-1931 -- Henry Ford at a crossroads : Inkster and the Ford Hunger March -- Behind the mask of civility: Black politics in Detroit, 1932-1935 -- Charting a new course for Black workers -- Black workers change tactics, 1937-1941.
Access	License restrictions may limit access.
Subject	African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century.
	African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	Migration, Internal -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Detroit (Mich.) -- Social conditions.
	Detroit (Mich.) -- Race relations.
Added Author	eBook Academic Collection - North America
	eBook Business Collection - North America
ISBN	9780807835647 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC #	sseb_ssj0000722715

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