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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)
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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Detroit labor activist Martin Glaberman estimated at the time that the Hamtramck plant was 70 per cent black while the union local (UAW Local 3), the plant management and lower supervision, and the Hamtramck city administration was dominated by older Polish-American workers. [1] DRUM sought to organize black workers to obtain concessions not ...
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 ...