Detroit, I Do Mind Dying

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South End Press, 1998 - Biography & Autobiography - 254 pages
Since its publication in 1975, Detroit: I Do Mind Dying has been widely recognized as one of the most important books on the black liberation movement and labor struggles in the United States. It tells the remarkable story of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, based in Detroit, and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, two of the most important political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s.This new edition includes commentary by Detroit activists Sheila Murphy Cockrel, Edna Ewell Watson, Michael Hamlin, and Herb Boyd. All of them reflect not only on the tremendous achievements of Drum and the League, but on their political legacy for Detroit, for U.S. politics, and for them personally.
 

Contents

A Prologue
9
Our Thing Is DRUM
23
We Will Take the Hard Line
43
The League of Revolutionary Black Workers
69
Niggermation at Eldon
85
Finally Got the News
107
Black Workers Congress
131
STRESS
151
Mr Justin Ravitz Marxist Judge
175
The 54Hour Week
189
Thirty Years Later
203
Further Reading
235
About South End Press 256
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