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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bates, Beth Tompkins
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 offered by Ford in the hope of gaining greater economic security. As these workers came to realize that Ford's anti-union 'American Plan' did not allow them full access to the American Dream, their loyalty eroded, and they sought empowerment by pursuing a broad activist agenda.
Physical Description:1 online resource (360 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781469601571

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