This revised edition charts Detroit's bitter history of race and class violence, and its particular effect on the city today.
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- English
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to Great Lakes Books Edition
- Preface
- 1. The Legacy of the KKK
- 2. The Twenties: Industrial Tyranny and Plantation Politics
- 3. The Depression and the Growth of Radicalism
- 4. CIO Sitdowns: The Birth of Industrial Unionism
- 5. Labor’s Triumph: The Fall of Ford
- 6. Unionism—A New Foothold for Negroes
- 7. Wartime Detroit: Racial Tension Explodes
- 8. McCarthyism and Vigilante Democracy, Detroit Style
- 9. Postwar Reconstruction in Reutherland
- 10. Mayor Cavanagh and the Limits of Reform
- 11. A City Besieged: The Riot of ’67
- 12. Post-Riot Reconstruction: The Failure of the Power Elite
- 13. Detroit—Black Metropolis of the Future
- Epilogue: Detroit—A Reexamination
- Notes
- Index
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