The making of Black Detroit in the age of Henry Ford / Beth Tompkins Bates.
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. This book explains how black Detroiters, newly arrived from the South, seized the economic opportunities...
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Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2012], ©2012.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 343 pages) : illustrations |
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Published: University of North Carolina Press, 2012
The making of Black Detroit in the age of Henry Ford
Published: University of North Carolina Press, 2012
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xiii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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