The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford

The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford
Author: Beth Tompkins Bates
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2012
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807835641


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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