Detroit, I Do Mind DyingSince 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. |
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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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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution Marvin Surkin,Dan Georgakas Limited preview - 2022 |
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