The making of Black Detroit in the age of Henry Ford / Beth Tompkins Bates.

Overview: In the 1920s, Henry Ford hired thousands of African American men for his open-shop system of auto manufacturing. This move was a rejection of the notion that better jobs were for white men only. In The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford, Beth Tompkins Bates explains how black...

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Main Author: Bates, Beth Tompkins
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
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Physical Description:xiii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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505 0 |a Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations used in the text -- Introduction -- 1: With the wind at their backs: migration to Detroit -- 2: Henry Ford ushers in a new era for Black workers -- 3: Politics of inclusion and the construction of a new Detroit -- 4: Drawing the color line in housing, 1915-1930 -- 5: Politics of unemployment in depression-era Detroit, 1927-1931 -- 6: Henry Ford at a crossroads: Inkster and the Ford Hunger March -- 7: Behind the mask of civility: Black politics in Detroit, 1932-1935 -- 8: Charting a new course for Black workers -- 9: Black workers change tactics, 1937-1941 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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