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Black Detroit

a people's history of self-determination

First Amistad paperback edition.
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An edition of Black Detroit (2017)

Black Detroit

a people's history of self-determination

First Amistad paperback edition.
  • 5 Want to read
  • 1 Have read

"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 thriving metropolis to the city's glory days as the center of American commerce; from the waves of fugitives traveling on the Underground Railroad to the advent of the People Mover circling downtown; from the creation of the unparalleled sound of Motown to the emergence of Wayne State University as a hotbed of political thought. Boyd combines deep passion and a stunning eye for detail to seamlessly blend personal experience, exhaustive research, and eyewitness accounts collected from some of the city's wisest griots. Black Detroit looks at the influence African Americans have had on various aspects of the city's history, culture, and politics, including the auto industry, and it reframes the riots sparked by police brutality and housing discrimination from the perspective of the people most impacted by the city's neglectful policies. In the process, the book presents a roll call of the illustrious men and women who have defined and shaped the Motor City, including Malcolm X, Aretha Franklin, Berry Gordy, Fannie Richards, abolitionist William Lambert, and Coleman Young, Detroit's first black mayor. This important book documents how a committed work ethic, a well-developed spirit of resistance, and a deep sense of heritage continue to run strong through Detroit's black community--providing the true engine propelling the city's reemergence as a viable urban center for the twenty-first century"--Page [4] of cover.

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Pages
420

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Table of 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 afterword
Author's note : A son remembers.

Edition Notes

Originally published: 2017. With a new afterword.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-401) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
977.4/34044
Library of Congress
F574.D49 N429 2018

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 420 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
420

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26974350M
ISBN 10
0062346636
ISBN 13
9780062346636
OCLC/WorldCat
1029786000

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