Run home if you don't want to be killed : the Detroit uprising of 1943 / written and illustrated by...
Run home if you don't want to be killed : the Detroit uprising of 1943 / written and illustrated by...
Run home if you don't want to be killed : the Detroit uprising of 1943 / written and illustrated by Rachel Marie-Crane Williams.
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Publisher
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ; [Durham, NC] : in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, [2021]
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GQ 2021/0093
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Language
English
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Physical content
xvii, 277 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 27 cm.
Content type
text
still image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
No forgotten men, no forgotten races -- The four freedoms : executive order 8802 -- Meanwhile, back in Detroit -- The Sojourner Truth housing conflict -- Labor, race, war : 1941-1943 -- Île aux Cochons, Hog Island, Belle Isle -- Trouble in paradise : rumor, riots, and rebellion -- Topsy/Eva -- Up a...
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Publisher
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ; [Durham, NC] : in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, [2021]
Place of Publication
North Carolina
Date Published
[2021]
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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 th...
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Run home if you don't want to be killed : the Detroit uprising of 1943 / written and illustrated by Rachel Marie-Crane Williams.
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Documentary arts and culture
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-277).
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©2021
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GQ 2021/0093
Record Identifier
74VKaJ0opNyg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaJ0opNyg
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ISBN
1469663260
9781469663265
DDC
305.8009774340904
MMS ID
991024373516502626
