Black Detroit: a people's history of self-determination

Foreword / by Rev. Dr. JoAnn Watson

Introduction

Cadillac, "the Black Prince"

The Blackburn affair

Black abolitionists

Faulkner and flames

Early years of the black church

Black arts in the gilded age

The Pelhams and the black elite

Detroit and World War I

Dr. Sweet and Mr. Ford

White bail and the Brown Bomber

The turbulent thirties

Boom town

Breakthroughs

From Motown to showdown

A brand-new beat

Bing and bang

March to militancy

The Motor City is burning

Our thing is DRUM!

Under duress from STRESS

Muses and music

Coleman and Cockrel

Postindustrial blues

A mayor and malice

Emergency, resurgency

Kwame time!

A spark of redevelopment

Dhaka in Detroit

A looming chimera

Afterword / by Ron Lockett, executive director of the Northwest Activities Center

Author's note: A son remembers.