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 struggle in the United States.Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tells the remarkable story of the Dodge evolutionary Union Movement, based in Detroit, and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, two of the most important political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s.The new South End Press edition makes available the full text of this out-of-print classic -- along with a new foreword by Manning Marable, interviews with participants in the League, and reflections on political developments over the past three decades by Georgakas and Surkin.The 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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... Leadership Confer- ence ) by angry black unionists in 1957. The major leaders were Horace Sheffield and Buddy Battle , activists from the giant Local 600 at Ford's River Rouge plant . Viewed with alarm by most of the union leadership at ...
... Leadership Confer- ence ) by angry black unionists in 1957. The major leaders were Horace Sheffield and Buddy Battle , activists from the giant Local 600 at Ford's River Rouge plant . Viewed with alarm by most of the union leadership at ...
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... leadership did not crack under the pressure . On January 22 , 1969 , ELRUM led more than 300 workers to confront the local union leadership with a grievance list in much the way DRUM had con- fronted the leaders of Local 3. Five days ...
... leadership did not crack under the pressure . On January 22 , 1969 , ELRUM led more than 300 workers to confront the local union leadership with a grievance list in much the way DRUM had con- fronted the leaders of Local 3. Five days ...
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... leadership . They must hold the leadership's feet to the fire of these principles . You have lots of corrup- tion and incompetence in the unions . There are lots of shenanigans . Black workers today are naturally concerned about ...
... leadership . They must hold the leadership's feet to the fire of these principles . You have lots of corrup- tion and incompetence in the unions . There are lots of shenanigans . Black workers today are naturally concerned about ...
Contents
A Prologue | 9 |
Our Thing Is DRUM | 23 |
We Will Take the Hard Line | 43 |
Copyright | |
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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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