Run home if you don't want to be killed : the Detroit uprising of 1943 /

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Author / Creator:	Williams, Rachel Marie-Crane, 1972- author, artist.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ; [Durham, NC] : in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, 2021.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Documentary arts and culture Documentary arts and culture.
Subject:	Detroit Race Riot, Detroit, Mich., 1943 -- Comic books, strips, etc. Detroit Race Riot, Detroit, Mich., 1943 -- Personal narratives. African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc. Racism -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Comic books, strips, etc. African Americans -- Social conditions. Race relations. Racism. Detroit (Mich.) -- Race relations -- Comic books, strips, etc. Michigan -- Detroit. Electronic books. Comics (Graphic works) Historical comics. Nonfiction comics. Personal narratives. Nonfiction comics. Historical comics.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13514596

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Other authors / contributors:	Duke University. Center for Documentary Studies, publisher.
ISBN:	9781469663296 1469663295 9781469663265 1469663260 9781469663272 1469663279
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	"In the heat of June in 1943, a wave of destructive and deadly civil unrest took place in the streets of Detroit. The city was under the pressures of both war-time industrial production and the nascent civil rights movement - a powder keg waiting to go off. Thirty-four people were killed, most were Black, and over half were killed by police. Two thousand people were arrested and over 700 required treatment at local hospitals for their injuries. Property damage was estimated to be nearly two million dollars. Composed of first-hand accounts collected by the NAACP just after the skirmish and research drawn from primary and secondary sources, Rachel Williams delivers a graphic re-telling of the violence and racism in the city's past, combining drawn images, text, and story. The history and impact of these racial rebellions is made clear with Williams' drawings, and in showing us what happened, she reminds us that many issues - like police brutality, economic disparity, and white supremacy - plague our country to this day"--
Other form:	Print version: 9781469663265 1469663260 9781469663272 1469663279

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