What caused the Detroit riot? : an analysis /
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Author / Creator: | White, Walter, 1893-1955. |
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Imprint: | New York, N.Y. : National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1943. |
Description: | 37 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12494486 |
Other authors / contributors: | Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. |
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Provenance: | Copy 1. Former owner's signature: J. L. Nicholson 9/9/43. |
Notes: | Cover title. Pictorial printed wrappers. |
Summary: | A two-part detailed analysis of the June 20, 1943 Detroit race riot, including Thurgood Marshall's condemnation of the white police brutality. A total of 34 people were killed (25 of them black) and most at the hands of the police force; some 433 (mostly African-Americans) were wounded. |

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