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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Page 21
... wildcat strike upon my shoulders I shall wear it proudly . For what more nobler banner could a black working man bear . In this day and age under the brutal oppression reaped from the backs of black workers , the leader- ship of a wildcat ...
... wildcat strike upon my shoulders I shall wear it proudly . For what more nobler banner could a black working man bear . In this day and age under the brutal oppression reaped from the backs of black workers , the leader- ship of a wildcat ...
Page 96
... Wildcat had been given out . People in my department had picked it up and read it . Then , early in 1970 , they began to put out the Eldon Wildcat , a mimeoed plant news- letter . At that point , I was ready to leap out . I waited until ...
... Wildcat had been given out . People in my department had picked it up and read it . Then , early in 1970 , they began to put out the Eldon Wildcat , a mimeoed plant news- letter . At that point , I was ready to leap out . I waited until ...
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... Wildcat first appeared , ELRUM tried to front them off by physical threats . The Wildcat people came back , and ELRUM backed off . ELRUM remained extremely hostile to the Wildcat , even after it be- came known I was associated with it ...
... Wildcat first appeared , ELRUM tried to front them off by physical threats . The Wildcat people came back , and ELRUM backed off . ELRUM remained extremely hostile to the Wildcat , even after it be- came known I was associated with it ...
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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