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• Series Title:
• Documentary arts and culture
• Annotation:
• Williams delivers a graphic retelling of the racism and tension leading up to the violence of the Detroit Uprising in June of 1943. By incorporating firsthand accounts collected by the NAACP and telling them through a combination of hand-drawn images, historical dialogue, and narration, Williams makes the history and impact of these events immediate, and in showing us what happened, she reminds us that many issues of the time—police brutality, state-sponsored oppression, economic disparity, white supremacy—plague our country to this day. -- publisher
• Creator:
• Illustrator - Rachel Marie-Crane Williams
• Publication Information:
• Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, Durham, NC, 2021
• Color or Black & White:
• 
• Genres:
• Biography
• Non-Fiction
• Bibliography Available:
• Yes
• Original Language:
• English
• Historical Topic/Event:
• Detroit Race Riot (Detroit, Michigan : 1943)
• Race relations--Political aspects
• African Americans--Social conditions
• Geographic Setting:
• Michigan--Detroit
• Michigan--Detroit--Belle Isle Park
• Date Range:
• 1940 - 1968
• Tags:
• African Americans, Detroit, 20th Century, race relations, NAACP, race riots, labor, Executive Order 8802, Belle Isle, military integration, racism, Ford Motors, segregation, Bloody Monday
• Notes:
• Personal narratives, Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ; Durham, North Carolina : in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University,; Glossary of People, Organizations and Laws and a Note section included.
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