Whose Detroit Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City

Free Download Heather Ann Thompson, "Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City"
English | ISBN: 1501745611 | 2017 | 304 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
"Thompson’s engrossing book is essential for any collection on the history, politics, or society of post-World War II America."â* Library Journal

In Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the African American struggles for full equality and equal justice under the law that shaped the Motor City during the 1960s and 1970s. Even after Great Society liberals committed themselves to improving conditions in Detroit, Thompson argues, poverty and police brutality continued to plague both neighborhoods and workplaces. Frustration with entrenched discrimination and the lack of meaningful remedies not only led black residents to erupt in the infamous urban uprising of 1967, but it also sparked myriad grassroots challenges to postwar liberalism in the wake of that rebellion.
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