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Detroit, I do mind dying : a study in urban revolution
- Title
- Detroit, I do mind dying : a study in urban revolution / Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin ; [foreward by Manning Marable].
- Author
- Georgakas, Dan
- Publication
- Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, 2012.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xx, 254 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "...tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as they became two of the most vital political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. Widely heralded as one of the most important books on the Black liberation movement and labor struggles in U.S. history"--Back cover.
- Alternative Title
- Study in urban revolution
- Subject
- Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
- League of Revolutionary Black Workers
- African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > Social conditions
- African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > Politics and government
- African American automobile industry workers > Michigan > Detroit
- African American labor union members > Political activity > Michigan > Detroit
- Working class > Michigan > Detroit > Social conditions
- Working class > Political activity > Michigan > Detroit
- Racism in the workplace > Michigan > Detroit
- Radicalism > Michigan > Detroit
- Social movements > Michigan > Detroit
- African American automobile industry workers
- African Americans > Politics and government
- African Americans > Social conditions
- Race relations
- Racism in the workplace
- Radicalism
- Social movements
- Working class > Political activity
- Working class > Social conditions
- Detroit (Mich.) > Race relations
- Michigan > Detroit
- Note
- "An updated edition of the classic account of revolutionary Black workers in Detroit."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-238) and index.
- Filmography: page 238.
- Contents
- Foreward / [Manning Marable] -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the third edition -- Introduction to the first edition -- James Johnson : a prologue -- Inner City Voice -- Our thing is DRUM -- We will take the hard line -- The League of Revolutionary Black Workers -- Niggermation at Eldon -- Finally got the news -- Black Workers Congress -- Stop the Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets: STRESS -- Mr. Justin Ravitz, Marxist judge -- The 54-hour week -- Thirty years later -- The Legacy of DRUM: four histories -- Further reading.
- Call Number
- Sc D 12-34
- ISBN
- 9781608462216
- 1608462218
- OCLC
- 783151666
- Author
- Georgakas, Dan, author.
- Title
- Detroit, I do mind dying : a study in urban revolution / Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin ; [foreward by Manning Marable].
- Imprint
- Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, 2012.
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-238) and index.Filmography: page 238.
- Added Author
- Surkin, Marvin, author.Marable, Manning, 1950-2011, writer of foreword.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 12-34