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Article: Life for Us is What We Make It: Building Black Community in Detroit, 1915-1945.
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- June 22, 1993
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1993 Journal of Social History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Black Detroit has attracted more than its share of scholarly attention. This is not surprising, as its history provides striking examples of the hope and despair, the constructive achievements and violent conflict that have characterized black urban America. Detroit itself was transformed from a middle-sized nineteenth-century commercial city to America's quintessential industrial city in just two decades. Its small black population (less than 6,000 in 1910) grew to become one of the largest and most influential black urban communities in America. Once admired for its effective African-American organizations and its record of interracial co-operation, Detroit exploded in ...
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