TY - BOOK ID - 77888095 TI - The making of Black Detroit in the age of Henry Ford PY - 2012 SN - 1469601575 0807837458 9780807837450 9781469601571 9780807835647 0807835641 9781469613857 1469613859 9798890840059 9798893130034 PB - Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press DB - UniCat KW - Migration, Internal KW - African Americans KW - Afro-Americans KW - Black Americans KW - Colored people (United States) KW - Negroes KW - Africans KW - Ethnology KW - Blacks KW - History KW - Social conditions KW - Detroit (Mich.) KW - Detroit KW - Diṭroiṭ (Mich.) KW - Deṭroyṭ (Mich.) KW - Town of Detroit (Mich.) KW - City of Detroit (Mich.) KW - Race relations. KW - Social conditions. KW - E-books KW - Michigan KW - 20th century KW - Migration [Internal ] KW - United States KW - Race relations KW - Black people UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77888095 AB - In the 1920s, Henry Ford hired thousands of African American men for his open-shop system of auto manufacturing. This move was a rejection of the notion that better jobs were for white men only. In The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford, Beth Tompkins Bates explains how black Detroiters, newly arrived from the South, seized the economic opportunities offered by Ford in the hope of gaining greater economic security. As these workers came to realize that Ford's anti-union ""American Plan"" did not allow them full access to the American Dream, their loyalty eroded, and they s ER -