Copyright © 2001 by Heather Ann Thompson
Prologue to the 2017 Printing copyright © 2017 by Heather Ann Thompson
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First published 2001 by Cornell University Press
First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2004
Reprinted with a new prologue, 2017
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Thompson, Heather Ann, 1963- author.
Title: Whose Detroit? : politics, labor, and race in a modern American city / Heather Ann Thompson ; with a new prologue.
Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016055835 (print) | LCCN 2016057115 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501709210 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781501709227 (epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501712814 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Detroit (Mich.)—Politics and government—20th century. | Detroit (Mich.)—Race relations. | Detroit (Mich.)—Economic conditions—20th century. | African Americans—Michigan—Detroit—Social conditions—20th century. | African Americans—Michigan—Detroit—Economic conditions—20th century. | Urban poor—Michigan— Detroit—History—20th century. | Labor movement—Michigan—Detroit—History—20th century. | African Americans—Migrations—History—20th century. | Rural-urban migration—United States—History—20th century.
Classification: LCC F574.D457 T48 2017 (print) | LCC F574.D457 (ebook) | DDC 305.8009774/34—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016055835
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Cover photograph: Standoff at Linwood and Hazelwood Streets, July 1967.
Photograph by Tony Spina, the Chief Photographer of the Detroit Free Press. © Detroit Free Press. Used with permission.