Beth Tompkins Bates: 2 books
by Beth Tompkins Bates
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Between World War I and World War II, African Americans' quest for civil rights took on a more aggressive character as a new group of black activists challenged the politics of civility traditionally embraced by old-guard leaders in favor of a more forceful protest strategy. Beth Tompkins Bates traces...
by Beth Tompkins Bates
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
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 Detroiters,...