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African Americans Michigan Detroit History 20th century Civil rights movements Detroit (Mich.) Race relations Detroit (Mich.) Race relations History Detroit (Mich.) Race relations History 20th century Michigan Detroit Race discrimination Race relations Violence Michigan Detroit History 20th century WallsSummary: Fifty years after anger and frustration over police-community relations boiled over into a rebellion in Detroit, there are lots of people asking what we’ve learned, how we’ve changed. ...There are so many ways that the factors that led to the uprising are still with us. There are so many reminders, both physical and metaphorical. If there is good news, 50 years after the 1967 uprising, it is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 INTRobertson, Aaron
Summary: "A memoiristic history of Black utopian movements in the United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 ROBDarden, Joe T.
Summary: Episodes of racial conflict in Detroit form just one facet of the city's storied and legendary history, and they have sometimes overshadowed the less widely known but equally important occurrence of interracial cooperation in seeking solutions to the city's problems. The conflicts also present many opportunities to analyze, learn from, and interrogate the past in order to help lay the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2013
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Summary: A history of how racial disunity and industrial decline handicapped post-World War II urban planning initiatives in Detroit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 THOFine, Sidney
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 1989
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.434 FINKenyon, Amy Maria.
Contents: Rumors from a motel in Detroit -- Mapping postwar space and culture -- Spaces of detachment -- Critiques of suburban conformity -- Everyday life and suburban estrangement -- The city that would not go away -- Postwar space and culture in context.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004
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Van Dusen, Gerald C.
Summary: In 1941, a real estate developer in northwest Detroit faced a dilemma. He needed federal financing for white clients purchasing lots in a new subdivision abutting a community of mostly African Americans. When the banks deemed the development too risky because of potential racial tension, the developer proposed a novel solution. He built a six-foot-tall, one-foot-thick concrete barrier extending...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The History Press 2019