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Run home if you don't want to be killed : the Detroit uprising of 1943 /

"In the heat of June in 1943, a wave of destructive and deadly civil unrest took place in the streets of Detroit. The city was under the pressures of both war-time industrial production and the nascent civil rights movement - a powder keg waiting to go off. Thirty-four people were killed, most...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, Rachel Marie-Crane, 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : [Durham, NC] : University of North Carolina Press ; in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, 2021.
Colección:Documentary arts and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • A Note on Language
  • Prologue
  • 1. No Forgotten Men, No Forgotten Races
  • 2. The Four Freedoms: Executive Order 8802
  • 3. Meanwhile, Back in Detroit
  • 4. The Sojourner Truth Housing Conflict
  • 5. Labor, Race, War: 1941-1943
  • 6. Île aux Cochons, Hog Island, Belle Isle
  • 7. Trouble in Paradise: Rumor, Riots, and Rebellion
  • 8. Topsy/Eva
  • 9. Up and Down the Street
  • 10. White Lies
  • 11. Aftermath
  • 12. Eden
  • Coda
  • Author's Note
  • Glossary of People, Organizations, and Laws
  • Notes
  • Bibliography