Life for us is what we make it : building Black community in Detroit, 1915-1945 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Thomas, Richard Walter, 1939-
Imprint:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1992.
Description:	xiv, 365 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Blacks in the diaspora ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subject:	African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century. Detroit (Mich.) -- History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10514125

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Other authors / contributors:	American Council of Learned Societies.
ISBN:	0253359902
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [321-357) and index. Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2002. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet. This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Early Struggles and Community Building
2. The Demand for Black Labor, Migration, and the Emerging Black Industrial Working Class, 1915-1930
3. The Role of the Detroit Urban League in the Community Building Process, 1916-1945
Fourt. Weathering the Storm
5. Racial Discrimination in Industrial Detroit: Preparing the Ground for Community Social Consciousness
6. Social Consciousness and Self-Helf: The Heart and Soul of Community Building
7. Protest and Politics: Emerging Forms of Community Empowerment
8. Conflicting Strategies of Black Community Building: Unionization vs. Ford Corporate Paternalism, 1936-1941
Epilogue
Notes
Sources
Index

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