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Title:
The making of Black Detroit in the age of Henry Ford
Author:
Bates, Beth Tompkins.
ISBN:
9780807837450

9781469601571
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2012.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 343 pages) : illustrations
Abstract:
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. This book explains how black Detroiters, newly arrived from the South, seized the economic opportunities offered by Ford in the hope of gaining greater economic security. As these workers came to realize that Ford's anti-union 'American Plan' did not allow them full access to the American Dream, their loyalty eroded, and they sought empowerment by pursuing a broad activist agenda.
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