The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford
- ISBN-10
- 0807835641
- ISBN-13
- 9780807835647
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 343
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Univ of North Carolina Press
- Author
- Beth Tompkins Bates
Description
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
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