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Publisher : Westsiders
ISBN 13 : 9780965777902
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (779 download)
Download or read book Remembering Detroit's Old Westside, 1920-1950 written by and published by Westsiders. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin Boyle
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429900164
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Arc of Justice written by Kevin Boyle and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions often flared with the KKK in ascendance and violence rising. Ossian Sweet, a proud Negro doctor-grandson of a slave-had made the long climb from the ghetto to a home of his own in a previously all-white neighborhood. Yet just after his arrival, a mob gathered outside his house; suddenly, shots rang out: Sweet, or one of his defenders, had accidentally killed one of the whites threatening their lives and homes. And so it began-a chain of events that brought America's greatest attorney, Clarence Darrow, into the fray and transformed Sweet into a controversial symbol of equality. Historian Kevin Boyle weaves the police investigation and courtroom drama of Sweet's murder trial into an unforgettable tapestry of narrative history that documents the volatile America of the 1920s and movingly re-creates the Sweet family's journey from slavery through the Great Migration to the middle class. Ossian Sweet's story, so richly and poignantly captured here, is an epic tale of one man trapped by the battles of his era's changing times.
Author : Gerald Van Dusen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439670889
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Detroit’s Sojourner Truth Housing Riot of 1942 written by Gerald Van Dusen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, no American city suffered a worse housing shortage than Detroit, and no one suffered that shortage more than the city's African American citizens. In 1941, the federal government began constructing the Sojourner Truth Housing Project in northeast Detroit to house 200 black war production workers and their families. Almost immediately, whites in the neighborhood vehemently protested. On February 28, 1942, a confrontation between black tenants and white protesters erupted in a riot that sent at least 40 to the hospital and more than 220 to jail. This confrontation was the precursor to the bloodiest race riot of the war just sixteen months later. Gerald Van Dusen, author of Detroit's Birwood Wall, unfolds the background and events of this overlooked moment in Motor City history.
Author : Felicia B. George
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 081435078X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book When Detroit Played the Numbers written by Felicia B. George and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of how Detroit entrepreneurs created a thriving—if illegal—lottery system to support themselves and uplift their communities. A testament to the tenacious spirit embodied in Detroit culture and history, this account reveals how numbers gambling, initially an illegal enterprise, became a community resource and institution of solidarity for Black communities through times of racial disenfranchisement and labor instability. Author Felicia B. George sheds light on the lives of Detroit's numbers operators—many self-made entrepreneurs who overcame poverty and navigated the pitfalls of racism and capitalism by both legal and illegal means. Illegal lottery operators and their families and employees were often exposed to precarity and other adverse conditions, and they profited from their neighbors' hope to make it through another day. Despite scandal and exploitation, these operators and their families also became important members of the community, providing steady employment and financial support for local businesses. This book provides a glimpse into the rich culture and history of Detroit's Black Bottom and Paradise Valley neighborhoods, linking the growing gambling scene there with key characters and moments in local history, including Joe Louis's rise to fame and the recall of a mayor backed by the Ku Klux Klan. In succinct and engrossing chapters, George explores issues of community, race, politics, and the scandals that sprang up along the way, discovering how "playing the numbers" grew from a state-proclaimed crime to an encouraged legal activity.
Author : William R. Bauer
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472067916
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Open the Door written by William R. Bauer and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2003-03-07 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the lifelong influence of Betty Carter's career and her music on the music world
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Societie of the Culturally Concerned Presents Detroit's Jazz Heritage written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph S. Cialdella
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822987023
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Motor City Green written by Joseph S. Cialdella and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motor City Green is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. The book focuses primarily on the history of gardens and parks in the city of Detroit and its suburbs in southeast Michigan. Cialdella argues that Detroit residents used green space to address problems created by the city’s industrial rise and decline, and racial segregation and economic inequality. As the city’s social landscape became increasingly uncontrollable, Detroiters turned to parks, gardens, yards, and other outdoor spaces to relieve the negative social and environmental consequences of industrial capitalism. Motor City Green looks to the past to demonstrate how today’s urban gardens in Detroit evolved from, but are also distinct from, other urban gardens and green spaces in the city’s past.
Author : Mark Slobin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190882093
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Motor City Music written by Mark Slobin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first-ever historical study across all musical genres in any American metropolis. Detroit in the 1940s-60s was not just "the capital of the twentieth century" for industry and the war effort, but also for the quantity and extremely high quality of its musicians, from jazz to classical to ethnic. The author, a Detroiter from 1943, begins with a reflection of his early life with his family and others, then weaves through the music traffic of all the sectors of a dynamic and volatile city. Looking first at the crucial role of the public schools in fostering talent, Motor City Music surveys the neighborhoods of older European immigrants and of the later huge waves of black and white southerners who migrated to Detroit to serve the auto and defense industries. Jazz stars, polka band leaders, Jewish violinists, and figures like Lily Tomlin emerge in the spotlight. Shaping institutions, from the Ford Motor Company and the United Auto Workers through radio stations and Motown, all deployed music to bring together a city rent by relentless segregation, policing, and spasms of violence. The voices of Detroit's poets, writers, and artists round out the chorus.
Author : Heather Barrow
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1609091809
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Henry Ford’s Plan for the American Suburb written by Heather Barrow and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around Detroit, suburbanization was led by Henry Ford, who not only located a massive factory over the city's border in Dearborn, but also was the first industrialist to make the automobile a mass consumer item. So, suburbanization in the 1920s was spurred simultaneously by the migration of the automobile industry and the mobility of automobile users. A welfare capitalist, Ford was a leader on many fronts—he raised wages, increased leisure time, and transformed workers into consumers, and he was the most effective at making suburbs an intrinsic part of American life. The decade was dominated by this new political economy—also known as "Fordism"—linking mass production and consumption. The rise of Dearborn demonstrated that Fordism was connected to mass suburbanization as well. Ultimately, Dearborn proved to be a model that was repeated throughout the nation, as people of all classes relocated to suburbs, shifting away from central cities. Mass suburbanization was a national phenomenon. Yet the example of Detroit is an important baseline since the trend was more discernable there than elsewhere. Suburbanization, however, was never a simple matter of outlying communities growing in parallel with cities. Instead, resources were diverted from central cities as they were transferred to the suburbs. The example of the Detroit metropolis asks whether the mass suburbanization which originated there represented the "American dream," and if so, by whom and at what cost. This book will appeal to those interested in cities and suburbs, American studies, technology and society, political economy, working-class culture, welfare state systems, transportation, race relations, and business management.
Author : David Rambeau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Conant Gardens written by David Rambeau and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Michigan History Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : American Society of Civil Engineers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Our Untold Stories written by and published by American Society of Civil Engineers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical information about African American ancestors of members of the Fred Hart Williams Genealogical Society.
Author : Peter Gavrilovich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Detroit Almanac written by Peter Gavrilovich and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rebecca Poyourow
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book From Working Girl to Adolescent written by Rebecca Poyourow and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 2348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 2348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.
Author : Ray Barfield
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Listening to Radio, 1920-1950 written by Ray Barfield and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1996-07-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ray Barfield has done something quite new in media studies. Rather than trace the history of radio through the usual route, he has sought out a body of oral history from those who grew up with and listened to radio. He has not only collated the responses of his informants but placed their comments in a larger cultural and historical context and thus provided a kind of history from the ground up. He demonstrates thereby just how important and influential radio was in the lives of ordinary Americans. General readers and scholars alike will learn something from Barfield's engaging narrative about why radio was once such a compelling force in our culture. (From the Foreword by Thomas Inge.) This fresh and engaging account of early radio's contributions to U.S. social and cultural life brings together varied perspectives of listeners who recall the programs that delighted and entranced them. The first electronic medium to enter the home, radio is examined as a chief purveyor of family entertainment and as a bridge across regional differences. Barfield draws from over 150 accounts, providing a forum and a context for listeners of early radio to share their memories—from their first impressions of that magical box to favorite shows. Opening chapters trace the changing perceptions of radio as a guest or an invader in U.S. homes during the exuberant 1920s, the cash-scarce 1930s, and the rapidly changing World War II and post-war years. Later chapters offer listener responses to every major program type, including news reporting and commentary, sportscasts, drama, comedy series, crime and terror shows, educational and cultural programs, children's adventure series, soap operas, audience participation shows, and musical presentations. This fresh and engaging account of early radio's contributions to U.S. social and cultural life brings together varied perspectives of listeners who recall the programs that delighted and entranced them. The first electronic medium to enter the home, radio is examined as a chief purveyor of family entertainment and as a bridge across regional differences. Barfield draws from over 150 accounts, providing a forum and a context for listeners of early radio to share their memories—from their first impressions of that magical box to favorite shows. Opening chapters trace the changing perceptions of radio as a guest or an invader in U.S. homes during the exuberant 1920s, the cash-scarce 1930s, and the rapidly changing World War II and post-war years. Later chapters offer listener responses to every major program type, including news reporting and commentary, sportscasts, drama, comedy series, crime and terror shows, educational and cultural programs, children's adventure series, soap operas, audience participation shows, and musical presentations.
Author : Lars Bjorn
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472067657
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (676 download)
Download or read book Before Motown written by Lars Bjorn and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Detroit jazz comes alive with remarkable photographs, advertisements, and interviews
