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Detroit, I do mind dying : a study in urban revolution / Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin ; [foreward by Manning Marable].

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, Ill. : Haymarket Books, 2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Surkin, Marvin.
  • Marable, Manning, 1950-2011
Description
xx, 254 p.; 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 > Detroit > Social conditions
  • African Americans > Detroit > Politics and government
  • African American automobile industry workers > Detroit
  • African American labor union members > Political activity > Detroit
  • Working class > Detroit > Social conditions
  • Working class > Political activity > Detroit
  • Racism in the workplace > Detroit
  • Radicalism > Detroit
  • Social movements > Detroit
  • Detroit (Mich.) > Race relations
Note
  • "An updated edition of the classic account of revolutionary Black workers in Detroit."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-238) and index.
  • Filmography: p. 238.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9781608462216
  • 1608462218
OCLC
  • 783151666
  • SCSB-12484167
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library