Detroit : a biography

Detroit : a biography / Scott Martelle.

At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub and then the bottom fell out. Detroit: A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities and one of the n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Martelle, Scott
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Chicago Review Press, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Beholders ; book 1
Subjects:
African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > History.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
African Americans
Economic history
Population
Detroit (Mich.) > History.
Detroit (Mich.) > Economic conditions.
Detroit (Mich.) > Population.
Michigan > Detroit
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • A difficult childhood
  • The British decades
  • Detroiters I, the Morans
  • Detroit and the Canal of Riches
  • The Civil War and racial flashpoints
  • Detroit turns industrial
  • Detroiters II, Michael Farrell
  • The auto era
  • A great migration
  • The Roaring Twenties
  • Great Depression
  • The Black Legion
  • Housing and the racial divide
  • The War years
  • The 1943 Riot
  • The postwar boom
  • Race in the Fifties
  • Detroiters III, Henry Russell, Jr.
  • Death of the covenants
  • Detroiters IV, the Blacks
  • The Oil Embargo
  • Detroiters V, John Thompson
  • When the jobs go away
  • Detroiters VI, Shelley
  • Pittsburgh, a different case.

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