Black Detroit [electronic resource] : a people's history of self-determination / Herb Boyd.

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"Award-winning journalist Herb Boyd chronicles the fascinating history of Detroit through the lens of the African American experience. Offering an expansive discussion of this iconic city, Black Detroit ranges in subject from Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac's initial vision of what would become a thrivi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boyd, Herb, 1938- (Author)
Other Authors: Watson, JoAnn Ford (writer of foreword.)
Lockett, Ron (writer of afterword.)
Language:English
Published: New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Boyd, Herb, > 1938-
African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > History > 20th century.
Detroit (Mich.) > History > 20th century.
Detroit (Mich.) > Biography.
Genre:
Biography.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2018 (EBSCO)
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Foreword / by Rev. Dr. JoAnn Watson
  • Introduction
  • Cadillac, "the Black Prince"
  • The Blackburn affair
  • Black abolitionists
  • Faulkner and flames
  • Early years of the black church
  • Black arts in the gilded age
  • The Pelhams and the black elite
  • Detroit and World War I
  • Dr. Sweet and Mr. Ford
  • White ball and the Brown Bomber
  • The turbulent thirties
  • Boom town
  • Breakthroughs
  • From Motown to showdown
  • A brand-new beat
  • Bing and bang
  • March to militancy
  • The Motor City is burning
  • Our thing is DRUM!
  • Under duress from STRESS
  • Muses and music
  • Coleman and Cockrel
  • Postindustrial blues
  • A mayor and malice
  • Emergency, resurgency
  • Kwame time!
  • A spark of redevelopment
  • Dhaka in Detroit
  • A looming chimera
  • Afterword / by Ron Lockett, executive director of the Northwest Activities Center
  • Author's note: A son remembers.