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Flores, Theresa L.

Summary: While more and more people each day become aware of the dangerous world of human trafficking, many people in the U.S. believe this is something that happens to foreign women men and children not something that happens to their own children and neighbors. They couldn't be more wrong. --publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ampelon Pub. 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 FLO

Philp, Drew

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "A young writer's sincere search (with his dog) for an authentic life--buying a ruined house in Detroit for $500, fixing it up nail by nail, and, in the process, participating in the grassroots rebirth of the city itself."--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PHILP, DREW PHI

Williams, Rachel Marie-Crane

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "In the heat of June in 1943, a wave of destructive and deadly civil unrest took place in the streets of Detroit. The city was under the pressures of both war-time industrial production and the nascent civil rights movement - a powder keg waiting to go off. Thirty-four people were killed, most were Black, and over half were killed by police. Two thousand people were arrested and over 700...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 WIL

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The History Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 VAN

Ryan, Jack.

Summary: Includes updates on many of the performers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Glendower Media LLC 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 RYA

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