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The making of Black Detroit in the age of Henry Ford
Migration, internal
Internal Migration
African americans, history
African americans, social conditions
Race relations
African Americans
Social conditions
History
Overview: In the 1920s, Henry Ford hired thousands of African American men for his open-shop system of auto manufacturing. This move was a rejection of the notion that better jobs were for white men only. In The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford, Beth Tompkins Bates explains how black…
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