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African Americans Civil rights History 20th century African Americans Civil rights Michigan Detroit History 20th century African Americans Michigan Detroit History 20th century Detroit (Mich.) Race relations Detroit (Mich.) Race relations Fiction Michigan Detroit Race relations Riots Michigan Detroit Trials (Murder) Michigan Detroit United States Race relationsFournier, Gregory A.
Summary: "Zug Island: A Detroit Riot Novel tells a Huck Finn-meets-heavy-industry tale about a suburban white kid who gets a crash course in race relations. Set in 1967 against a backdrop of industrial blight and urban decay, the book follows Jake Malone and Theo Semple as they stumble in and out of rhythm on Detroit's mean streets to discover that the face of racism comes in every shade of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheatmark 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOUSummary: 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 INTClemens, Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 305.809 CLEWilliams, Rachel Marie-Crane
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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 WILVan 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 VANKinney, Rebecca J.
Summary: "The first book to analyze how contemporary ideas of Detroit circulate in popular culture in order to map the extension of the mythology of the frontier in American culture. Kinney analyzes a cross-section of twentieth and twenty first century cultural locations--an internet web forum, architectural photography, advertising and commercial culture, documentary film, and print and online...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 KINDarden, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 DARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.896 DARBoyle, Kevin
Summary: The grandson of a slave, Dr. Ossian Sweet moved his family to an all-white Detroit neighborhood in 1925. When his neighbors attempted to drive him out, Sweet defended himself--resulting in the death of a white man and a murder trial for Sweet. There followed one of the most important (and shockingly unknown) cases in Civil Rights history. Also caught up in the intense courtroom drama were legal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 345.73 BOYBoyle, Kevin
Summary: Follows the 1925 murder trial of African-American doctor Ossian Sweet, who was accused of murdering a white person during a mob attack on his home, and includes a history of the Sweet family and a portrait of his attorney, Clarence Darrow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.0252 BOYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.0252 BOYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Blk BoyleMiles, Tiya
Summary: Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and territories provided stops on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. In this paradigm-shifting book, celebrated historian Tiya Miles reveals that slavery was at the heart of the Midwest's iconic city: Detroit. In this richly researched and eye-opening book, Miles has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 MILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 MILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI South MilesPhilp, Drew
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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PHILP, DREW PHIShogan, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chilton Books 1964
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 SHOChafets, Ze'ev.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 305.896 CHALasser, Scott.
Summary: After losing his son and divorcing his wife, a Detroit native returns home after twenty-five years and becomes involved with the sister of his murdered high school girlfriend as he tries to put back the pieces of his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LASMoon, Elaine Latzman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 977.434 MOOThomas, June Manning.
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 FINMorris, Bill
Summary: While smuggling a carload of guns into Detroit on the opening day of the 1968 baseball season, a former black activist discovers he is wanted by the police for an unsolved murder during the riots of the previous summer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORKenyon, 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