Bibliography

 

For bibliographies and other resources about Detroit's history, please do a search on the web site of Margrove College's Institute of Detroit Studies located at:

http://www.marygrove.edu/

 

Selected Bibliography Representing Sources on the History of African American in Detroit

 

Babson, steve et al. Working Detroit: The making of a Union Town. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1986

Bell, Ernest G. "History of the Black Church in Detroit as a Study in American Public Address." Ph.D. diss., Wayne State University, 1987

Bjorn, Lars with Gallert, Jim. Before Motown: A History of Jazz in Detroit, 1920-1960. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.

Boyle, Kevin. Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age. New York: H. Holt, 2004.

Fine, Sidney. Violence in the Model City: The Cavanagh Administration, Race Relations, and the Detroit Riot of 1967. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989.

Gavrilovich, Peter and McGraw, Bill, eds. The Detroit Almanac: 300 Years of Life in the Motor City. Detroit: Detroit Free Press, 2001

Geschwender, James A. Class, Race and Worker Insurgency: the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977.

Katzman, David M. Before the Ghetto: Black Detroit in the Nineteenth Century. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973.

Littlejohn, Edward J. and Hobson, Donald L. "Black Lawyers, law Practice, and Bar Associations-1844 to 1970: A Michigan History." The Wayne Law Review 33 (1987): 1625-1691.

McRae, Norman. "Blacks in Detroit, 1736-1833: The Search for Freedom and Community and its Implication for Educators." Ph.D diss., University of Michigan, 1982.

Meier, August and Rudwick, Elliott. Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Moon, Elaine Latzman. Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes: An Oral History of Detroit's African American Community, 1918-1967. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993.

Smith, Suzanne. Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Thomas, Richard Walter. Life for Us Is What We Make It: Building Black Community in Detroit, 1915-1945. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,1992.

Thompson, Heather. Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor and Race in a Modern American City. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.

Thompson, Julius Eric. Dudley Randall, Broadside Press and the Black Arts Movement in Detroit, 1960-1995. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1998.

Wolcott, Victoria W. Remaking Respectability: African American Women in Interwar Detroit. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

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