Article: "The committee ... has stood out against coercion": the reinvention of Detroit Americanization, 1915-1931.

To historians, the picture of the Americanization movement in Detroit has long seemed clear. The melting-pot pageantry of Henry Ford's English School and the family engineering of his Sociology Department have become well-known symbols for industrial Americanization. The propaganda campaigns for the public night schools sponsored by the Americanization Committee of the Detroit Board of Commerce during World War I likewise are familiar. But the picture fades out after 1920-1921, when businessmen's interest in Americanization waned across the nation. (1) Cutting off historical investigation of Detroit's industrial Americanization around 1921 is, however, a mistake that ...

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