The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bates, Beth Tompkins
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Race relations.
Migration, Internal.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Cultural Heritage.
Noirs americains > Michigan > Detroit > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Michigan > Detroit > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Migration, Internal > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > Social conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > History > 20th century.
United States.
Michigan > Detroit.
Detroit (Mich.) > Race relations.
Detroit (Mich.) > Social conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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