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Detroit: Detroit's News & Views Community Views (1960s) [17 ... Billed as the "Organ of the League of Revolutionary Black Worker[s]." [26] Detroit: The Interracial ...
United Auto Workers members hold a rally in Detroit, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. The UAW is conducting a strike against Ford, Stellantis and General Motors. (Paul Sancya / AP)
Detroit’s Black population jumped from around 6,000 in 1910 to 120,000 in 1930, and an influx of Black workers found jobs in the city’s dominant industry: automobiles. Ford hired Black workers ...
The League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW) formed in 1969 in Detroit, Michigan.The League united a number of different Revolutionary Union Movements (RUMs) that were growing rapidly across the auto industry and other industrial sectors—industries in which Black workers were concentrated in Detroit in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Many workers experienced ups and downs after coming to Detroit to work at Ford. Black workers were given the hardest jobs and struggled with housing. ... Auto plants today are quieter than in the ...
His involvement post the 1967 Detroit rebellion led him to join in the creation of Inner City Voice, a local periodical circulating in Detroit communities. The role of the Inner City Voice community in shaping the emergent Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (1968) and League of Revolutionary Black Workers (1968) has been documented in numerous ...
DETROIT (AP) — Donald Trump blamed immigrants for stealing jobs and government resources as he courted separate groups of Black voters and hardcore conservatives in battleground Michigan on ...
Before World War I, Detroit had about 4,000 Black people, 1% of its population. In the 1890s, journalist and founder of the black paper, Detroit Plaindealer, Robert Pelham Jr. and lawyer D. Augustus Straker worked in Detroit and throughout the state to create branches of the National Afro-American League.