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  • The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford
    Beth Tompkins Bates
    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. In The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford, Beth Tompkins Bates explains how black Detroiters, newly arrived from the South, seized the economic opportunities offered by Fo...
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  • Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945
    Beth Tompkins Bates
    Between World War I and World War II, African Americans’ quest for civil rights took on a more aggressive character as a new group of black activists challenged the politics of civility traditionally embraced by old-guard leaders in favor of a more forceful protest strategy. Beth Tompkins Bates traces the rise of this new protest politics — which was grounded in making demands ...
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