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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)
At the Piquette Avenue Plant, which opened 120 years ago in 1904, Ford and his employees planned and built the first versions of the Model T. Because the vehicles were made by hand, workers only ...
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 ...
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 ...
He pointed to the work of Black community leaders like Robin Rue Simmons, a former alderwoman for Evanston, Ill., who spearheaded her own city’s reparations campaign. In 2019, Evanston set aside ...
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.
The Michigan FrontPage is a weekly African-American newspaper based in Detroit, Michigan, serving the African-American community. It was founded in 2000 by a former publisher of the Michigan Chronicle and has been owned by the Chronicle 's parent company, Real Times Inc., since 2003. Its headquarters are in the Real Times offices in Midtown ...
With labor and union representation in the background, including UAW President Shawn Fain, Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at Northwestern High School in Detroit during a Labor Day rally on ...