Untold tales, unsung heroes : an oral history of Detroit's African American community, 1918-1967

Untold tales, unsung heroes : an oral history of Detroit's African American community, 1918-1967 /

Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes is a history of Detroit's African American community told by the men and women who lived it. More than one hundred individuals who lived in Detroit at some time during the period from 1918 to 1967 share stories about ordinary life - families and neighborhoods, commun...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Moon, Elaine Latzman
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press, 1994
Series:African American life series.
Subjects:
African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Michigan > Detroit > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > Biography.
Oral history.
Detroit (Mich.) > Race relations.
oral histories (literary works)
collective biographies.
Oral histories.
Biographies.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / N Charles Anderson
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chronology: African Americans in Detroit to 1917
  • African Americans In Detroit And The United States, 1918-1927:
  • Oscar Lee
  • Rosa Lee Kirkman Wheeler
  • James E Cummings
  • Helen Nuttal Brown-- Frank Angelo
  • Discussion on Employment Opportunities: Henry Biggs and Reginald R Larrie
  • Paul B Shirley
  • Charles C Diggs, Jr
  • Frederick N Cureton
  • Ernest Goodman
  • Carl Winter
  • Alice E M Cain Newman
  • William Hines
  • M Kelly Fritz
  • Sidney Barthwell
  • Lillian Duplessis
  • Discussion with Second Baptist Church Members: Arthur Michael Carter III, Nathaniel Leach, Wilhelmina Lewis Means, Katherine E Reid and Ernestine E Wright
  • Discussion on Education: William St Clair Billups and Earlie M Poole
  • Shelton Tappes
  • African Americans In Detroit And The United States, 1928-1937:
  • Fred W Guinyard
  • Ernestine E Wright
  • Dorothy Elizabeth Lawson
  • Discussion with Shiloh Baptist Church Members: Mary Ruth Chapman Harris, Marguerite Rhodes McIntosh, O Davene Ross McKinney and Mary O Brookins Ross, DD
  • Discussion on the Labor Movement: Hildred J Drew Dale, Gwendolyn Ruth Edwards, Hodges E Mason, Stanley Nowak and John J "Jack" White
  • Walter Rosser
  • Ruth Wills-Clemons
  • Discussion on Green Pastures Camp: Eleanor Boykin Jones, Ernest Timothy Marshall and Cecil Whittaker McFadden
  • James Boggs
  • Ernest C Dillard, Sr
  • Richard L King
  • Margaret McCall Thomas Ward
  • Edward Davis
  • Kermit G Bailer
  • Norman McRae
  • Beatrice M Buck
  • African Americans In Detroit And The United States, 1938-1947:
  • Marcena W Taylor
  • Erma Henderson
  • Discussion on Sojourner Truth Homes: Gerald V Blakely, Kenneth G Booker, Robert Bynum, Jr Thornton G Jackson and Adam Shakoor
  • Winston E Lang
  • James T Jenkins
  • Francis A Kornegay, PhD
  • Annie Ruth Cartwright Williams
  • Nancy Ann Green Allen
  • Discussion on World War II with Tuskegee Airmen: Ret Lt Col Alexander Jefferson, USAF and Richard D Macon
  • Herschel L Richey
  • Discussion on Life and Music: Thomas H "Dr Beans" Bowles, Sr and Earl F Van Dyke
  • Frances Quock
  • Discussion with Members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority: Jerrylee Johnson, Cecil Whittaker McFadden, Roberta McGuire Pickett, PhD, Carol A Sayers Puryear, Ph. D and Rose Marie Dickens Swanson
  • Austin W Curtis, DSC
  • Discussion on Civil Rights: Arthur Michael Carter III, Ernest Goodman, Alma Thomas Hall, Richard V Marks and John J "Jack" White
  • Discussion with Sacred Heart Church Members: Harry Bernard Boglin III, Mary Ann Humphries, Emma Jean Johnson and Anthony E McCauley, Sr
  • Mary Clarice McCauley Cosey
  • Wilfred E Little
  • Roy Brooks
  • Wardell C Croft, FLMI
  • Waldo Cain, MD
  • Discussion on Crime and Law Enforcement: Mackie C Johnson, Winston E Lang, Mary Upshaw McClendon, Frances Quock and Robert "Bob" L Cunningham
  • African Americans In Detroit And The United States, 1948-1957:
  • Nina Mack Lester, HHD
  • Ofield Dukes
  • Lionel F Swan, MD
  • David S Holmes
  • Discussion on life and music: Wendell R Harrison and Donald Walden
  • Discussion on life in the Brewster Housing Projects: Gloria Manlove Hunter and Eleanor Manlove
  • Mel Ravitz
  • Lamar N Richardson, Jr
  • Discussion on 12th Street Businesses: Bernard Odell and Odis Rencher
  • Minister William T Howard
  • African Americans In Detroit And The United States, 1958-1967:
  • Harold Norris
  • Marsha L Mickens
  • Leon M Bradley
  • William Lowell Hurt III
  • Dave Bing
  • Discussion on Virginia Park Community: Ollie Foster, Herschel L Richey and Walter Rosser
  • George Romney
  • Roy Wilds
  • Gerald Wayne Smith
  • Walter L A Edwards
  • Index.

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