Detroit : a biography / by Martelle, Scott

Table of Contents: “…A difficult childhood -- The British decades -- Detroiters I, the Morans -- Detroit and the Canal of Riches -- The Civil War and racial flashpoints -- Detroit turns industrial -- Detroiters II, Michael Farrell -- The auto era -- A great migration -- The Roaring Twenties -- Great Depression -- The Black Legion -- Housing and the racial divide -- The War years -- The 1943 Riot -- The postwar boom -- Race in the Fifties -- Detroiters III, Henry Russell, Jr. -- Death of the covenants -- Detroiters IV, the Blacks -- The Oil Embargo -- Detroiters V, John Thompson -- When the jobs go away -- Detroiters VI, Shelley -- Pittsburgh, a different case.…”
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Detroit : Race Riots, Racial Conflicts, and Efforts to Bridge the Racial Divide / by Darden, Joe T.

Table of Contents: “…Historical causes and consequences of the 1967 civil disorder : white racism, Black rebellion, and changing race relations in the post-civil disorder era -- Conflict between the Black community and white police : before and after the 1967 civil disorder -- Racial conflict over school desegregation -- Racial conflict over employment discrimination -- The emergence of Black political power after 1967 : impact of the civil disorders on race relations in Metropolitan Detroit -- City and suburban conflict over residential sharing of neighborhoods -- The declining auto industry and anti-Asian racism : the murder of Vincent Chin -- African American and Middle Eastern American relations after 1967 -- Old minority and new minority : Black-Latino relations in a predominantly Black city -- Economic restructuring, Black deprivation, and the problem of drugs and crime -- Measuring the racial divides in Metropolitan Detroit -- Interracial cooperation and bridge building in the post-riot era -- Alternative futures for residents of Detroit.…”
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Detroit : Race Riots, Racial Conflicts, and Efforts to Bridge the Racial Divide / by Darden, Joe T.

Table of Contents: “…Historical causes and consequences of the 1967 civil disorder : white racism, Black rebellion, and changing race relations in the post-civil disorder era -- Conflict between the Black community and white police : before and after the 1967 civil disorder -- Racial conflict over school desegregation -- Racial conflict over employment discrimination -- The emergence of Black political power after 1967 : impact of the civil disorders on race relations in Metropolitan Detroit -- City and suburban conflict over residential sharing of neighborhoods -- The declining auto industry and anti-Asian racism : the murder of Vincent Chin -- African American and Middle Eastern American relations after 1967 -- Old minority and new minority : Black-Latino relations in a predominantly Black city -- Economic restructuring, Black deprivation, and the problem of drugs and crime -- Measuring the racial divides in Metropolitan Detroit -- Interracial cooperation and bridge building in the post-riot era -- Alternative futures for residents of Detroit.…”
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Detroit : city of race and class violence / by Widick, B. J.

Table of Contents: “…A New Foothold for Negroes -- 7. Wartime Detroit: Racial Tension Explodes -- 8. McCarthyism and Vigilante Democracy, Detroit Style -- 9. …”
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Detroit, Michigan /

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Detroit Parade /

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Detroit unleaded /

Table of Contents: “…Detroit Unleaded: Gas Station Career (4:37);…”
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Dimon In Detroit

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Revolution Detroit : strategies for urban reinvention / by Gallagher, John, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Cities Today -- Detroit Today -- New Ways to Govern Our Cities -- Schools, Plus a Word about Crime -- Economics -- New Uses for Urban Land -- Learning from Europe -- Conclusion : The Way Forward.…”
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The Detroit Tigers : Club and Community, 1945-1995. by Harrigan, Patrick

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF APPENDICES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1 Baseball in Postwar American Society -- 2 The Briggs Era of Detroit Baseball -- 3 Transitions and Adaptation of the Detroit Baseball Club in the 1950s -- 4 Community Problems and a World Championship -- 5 The Players -- 6 The Era of Personalities, 1969-1977 -- 7 Free Agency and Big Money for Baseball, 1977-1983 -- 8 The Golden Age of Detroit Baseball -- 9 A Franchise in Decline -- 10 The Stadium as Symbol -- Epilogue: The 1994 Strike and Its Aftermath -- TABLES -- APPENDICES -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.…”
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Driving Detroit : the quest for respect in Motown / by Galster, George C., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Prologue. Two Daughters of Detroit; 1. Riding on the Freeway: A Riff on the Place Called Motown; 2. …”
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Driving Detroit : the quest for respect in Motown / by Galster, George C., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Prologue. Two Daughters of Detroit; 1. Riding on the Freeway: A Riff on the Place Called Motown; 2. …”
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Detroit remains : archaeology and community histories of six legendary places / by Ryzewski, Krysta, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Historical Archaeology and Community-Based Research in Detroit -- Chapter Two. Little Harry Speakeasy: Detroit's Underworld Resurfaces -- Chapter Three. …”
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Canvas Detroit / by Pincus, Julie, Christian, Nichole

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- How Detroit Got Its Groove Back -- The Alley Project -- Banksy -- Matthew Barney, Alchemist -- BASK -- Ben Bunk -- Halima Cassells -- Katie Craig -- Cupcake Girls -- Detroit: City of Loss and Wonder -- Dabls -- Design 99 and Power House Productions: Mitch Cope and Gina Reichert -- Design 99 and Power House Productions: Ride It Sculpture Park -- Design 99 and Power House Productions with Graem Whyte: Squash House…”
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Heaven was Detroit : from jazz to hip-hop and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Detroıt Jazz; A Top-Down Motown Bebop Pubescence: Twelve Takes; Bebop in Detroit: Nights at the Blue Bird Inn; The Donald Byrd-Pepper Adams Quintet: Jazz in Detroit, 1958-61; Teddy Harris: A Jazz Man in Motown; Rebirth of Tribe; Strata Records; Roy Brooks: Detroit Downbeat; Musician Interrupted: Faruq Z. …”
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Bobweaving Detroit : the selected poems of Murray Jackson / by Jackson, Murray (Murray E.)

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Reimagining Detroit : opportunities for redefining an American city / by Gallagher, John, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Shrinking cities -- Detroit today -- Potential and problems in urban agriculture -- Road diets and roundabouts -- Healing a wounded landscape -- Filling the vacancy -- Revving the urban economic engine -- The best idea Detroit's never tried -- Who governs?…”
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The dogs of Detroit : stories / by Felver, Brad, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…Queen Elizabeth -- Throwing leather -- Evolution of the mule -- The ear of good feelings -- How to throw a punch -- Unicorn stew -- Stones we throw -- In the walls -- Out of the bronx -- Hide-and-seek -- Country lepers -- Praemonitus, praemunitus -- Patriots -- The dogs of Detroit.…”
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Whose Detroit? : politics, labor, and race in a modern American city / by Thompson, Heather Ann, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : reassessing the fate of postwar cities, politics, and labor -- Beyond racial polarization : political complexity in the city and labor movement of the 1950s -- Optimism and crisis in the new liberal metropolis -- Driving desperation on the auto shop floor -- Citizens, politicians, and the escalating war for Detroit's civic future -- Workers, officials, and the escalating war for Detroit's labor future -- From battles on city streets to clashes in the courtroom -- From fights for union office to wildcats in the workplace -- Urban realignment and labor retrenchment : an end to Detroit's war at home -- Conclusion : civic transformation and labor movement decline in postwar urban America.…”
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Detroit 1967 : Origins, Impacts, Legacies. by Joel Stone

Table of Contents: “…Detroit's forgotten history of slavery /…”
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Digital Detroit : rhetoric and space in the age of the network / by Rice, Jeff (Jeff R.)

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Disruption in Detroit : autoworkers and the elusive postwar boom / by Clark, Daniel J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Shortages and strikes, 1945-1948 -- The era of "The treaty of Detroit," 1949-1950 -- No longer the arsenal of democracy, 1951-1952 -- A post-Korean War boom, 1953 -- A "painfully inconvenient" recession, 1954 -- The fifties in one year, 1955 -- "A severe and prolonged hangover," 1956-1957 -- The nadir, 1958 -- "What is happening? …”
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Arab Detroit : from margin to mainstream /

Table of Contents: “…Building the Infrastructure of Arab American Identity in Detroit A Short History of ACCESS and the Community It Serves A Demographic Portrait of Arab Detroit -- PART 2 WORK -- Introduction -- You Only Exist Inside Me -- In the Tenth Year of War -- Dumb like a Fox…”
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Detroit's Eastern Market : a Farmers Market Shopping and Cooking Guide, Third Edition. by Johnson, Lois

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the 2016 Edition; Acknowledgments; Origins of Detroit's Eastern Market; Seasons of Detroit's Eastern Market; Businesses of Detroit's Eastern Market; Food-Related Shops; Restaurants and Bars; Specialty Shops; Wholesale Dealers of Detroit's Eastern Market; Produce; Meat; Sheds of Detroit's Eastern Market; Farmers and Vendors; Specialty Items in Stalls; The New Food Attitude: FoodLab Detroit; Shoppers of Detroit's Eastern Market; Stories of Detroit's Eastern Market We Want to Remember; Recipes of Detroit's Eastern Market; Appetizers; Beverages.…”
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Generation start up

Subjects: “…New business enterprises Michigan Detroit.…”
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PBS NewsHour. This nonprofit has a sweet plan for reclaiming vacant Detroit lots

Subjects: “…Bee culture Michigan Detroit.…”
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Safety parade, Detroit. Part 2

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The battle to save Detroit /

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A hanging in Detroit : Stephen Gifford Simmons and the last execution under Michigan law / by Chardavoyne, David G.

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Making callaloo in detroit / by Hernandez, Lolita

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- MAKING BULJOL -- PROCESS SERVER -- FIVE WORKERS REPORT ON HOW THE DEAL REALLY WENT DOWN -- NO PUEDO BAILAR -- MAKING BAKES -- SOMETIMES YOU LEAP; SOMETIMES YOU FALL -- SADIE AND MARQWAY -- ADIOS, DETROIT -- MAKING CALLALOO -- OVER THE BELLE ISLE BOUNDARY -- OLE YEAR'S NIGHT -- LOVE IN THE DOLLAR STORE…”
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The Detroit Public Library : an American classic / by Cohn, Barbara Madgy, Merritt, Patrice Rafail

Table of Contents: “…Azalia Hackley Collection -- Music room -- The 1963 addition -- The Burton reading room -- The Cass Avenue entrance -- The twenty-first-century library -- Acknowledgments -- The Detroit Public Library Friends Foundation.…”
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Detroit City Map /

Subjects: “…Roads Michigan Detroit Maps.…”
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Detroit and the property tax : strategies to improve equity and enhance revenue / by Sands, Gary, Skidmore, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Executive Summary; Chapter 1: Introduction; Background; Detroit in the 21st Century; Chapter 2: Statewide Property Tax Policies; Proposal A; Headlee Amendment; Tax Abasements; Chapter 3: Tax Base Distortions in Detroit; Limitations on Growth in Assessments; Tax-Exempt Property; Assessment Practices; Tax Delinquency; Chapter 4: Tax Abatements and Regional Competition; Relatively High Tax Rates; Use of Abatements to Reduce Tax Burden; Ineffectiveness of Tax Abatements; Regional Competition in Southeast Michigan; Chapter 5: Alternative Tax Scenarios…”
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Detroit's Cold War : the origins of postwar conservatism / by Doody, Colleen

Table of Contents: “…New Deal Detroit, Communism, and Anticommunism -- Labor and the Birth of the Postwar Red Scare, 1945-1950 -- Race and Anticommunism, 1945-1952 -- Anticommunism and Catholicism in Cold-War Detroit -- Business, Anticomunism, and the Welfare State, 1945-1958.…”
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The Detroit Symphony Orchestra : grace, grit, and glory / by Harris, Laurie Lanzen, Ganson, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Another Rebirth, 1952-63: The "Detroit Plan," Paul Paray, and a New Golden Age.…”
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Reveal your Detroit : an intimate look at a great American city /

Table of Contents: “…Reveal your Detroit -- The authentic city -- Detroit's vital transformation -- Postscript -- List of contributors -- List of partner organizations.…”
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Amos Walker's Detroit / by Estleman, Loren D.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Detroit Skyline -- Renaissance Center -- Fox Theater -- Woodward Avenue -- Wayne County Building -- City Traffic -- Cobo Hall -- Detroit Institute of Arts -- Caucus Club -- Warehouse District -- Detroit River -- Fisher Building -- Detroit Police Headquarters -- Belle Isle Bridge -- Belle Isle -- John K King Books -- Ford River Rouge Plant -- Hilton Garden Inn -- Detroit Public Library -- Cass Corridor -- Greektown Restaurant -- Eight Mile and Dequindre -- MGM Grand -- Most Holy Trinity -- Mexicantown -- Rosa Parks Boulevard/Twelfth Street -- Walker's Office -- Walker's Building -- Walker's House -- Stutch Motors Plant -- Tomcat Theatre -- Alamo Motel -- Blue Heron (The Lark) -- Iroquois Heights -- Dearborn -- Hamtramck -- Detroit Metropolitan Airport -- Ecorse -- Birmingham -- Windsor -- Monroe -- Detroit Beach -- Westland -- Grosse Pointe -- Port Huron -- Credits.…”
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Fitzgerald : geography of a revolution by Bunge, William, 1928-2013

Table of Contents: “…The certain past -- Pioneers : colored and white -- The farms prosper -- Detroit envelops Fitzgerald -- section 2. The crucial present -- Races meet -- Races mix -- Races separate -- Slums move closer -- Fitzgerald plans -- Institutions respond -- Education strains -- section 3. …”
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Fitzgerald : geography of a revolution by Bunge, William, 1928-2013

Table of Contents: “…The certain past -- Pioneers : colored and white -- The farms prosper -- Detroit envelops Fitzgerald -- section 2. The crucial present -- Races meet -- Races mix -- Races separate -- Slums move closer -- Fitzgerald plans -- Institutions respond -- Education strains -- section 3. …”
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Men at work : voices from Detroit's underground economy /

Subjects: “…Informal sector (Economics) Michigan Detroit.…”
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