Black Detroit and the Rise of the United Automobile Workers - Hardcover

Meier, August; Rudwick, Elliott M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019502561X ISBN 13: 9780195025613

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 1979

Synopsis

Investigates the causes, growth, and result of Black involvement in the UAW during the New Deal

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Review

For almost two decades, August Meier and Elliott Rudwick have roamed the frontier of Afro-American history, blazing trails that others have followed. This book forges a solid link between race and class conflict in the twentieth century. - Ira Berlin, The Nation ""This fact-filled study is essential to students of the labor and civil rights movements."" - David Kusnet, The New Republic

About the Author

August Meier taught at Tougaloo College, Fisk University, Morgan State University, Roosevelt University and Kent State University. He debated Malcolm X at Morgan in 1962, and worked with Bayard Rustin and Howard Zinn, among others. Many of his works are now considered classics, including Negro Thought in America: Racial Ideologies in the Age of Booker T. Washington, 1880-1915, also published by the University of Michigan Press. Dr. Meier died in 2003. The late Elliott Rudwick was Professor of History and Sociology at Kent State University. Joe W. Trotter is Mellon Professor of History and Department Head at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He is also director of Carnegie Mellon's Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE) and the author of The African American Experience.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019502561X
• ISBN 13: 9780195025613
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304