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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bates, Beth Tompkins
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Subjects:
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.
African Americans.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Migration, Internal.
Race relations.
Social conditions.
Michigan > Detroit.
United States.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xiii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.