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The making of Black Detroit in the age of Henry Ford / Beth Tompkins Bates.

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Overview: In the 1920s, Henry Ford hired thousands of African American men for his open-shop system of auto manufacturing. This move was a rejection of the notion that better jobs were for white men only. In The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford, Beth Tompkins Bates explains how black...

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Main Author: Bates, Beth Tompkins
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Subjects:
African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > Social conditions > 20th century.
Migration, Internal > United States > History > 20th century.
Detroit (Mich.) > Social conditions.
Detroit (Mich.) > Race relations.
African Americans.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Migration, Internal.
Race relations.
Social conditions
Michigan > Detroit.
United States.
History.

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Call Number: F574.D49 N428 2012
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