Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City

"Thompson's engrossing book is essential for any collection on the history, politics, or society of post–World War II America."â• Library Journal

In Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the African American struggles for full equality and equal justice under the law that shaped the Motor City during the 1960s and 1970s. Even after Great Society liberals committed themselves to improving conditions in Detroit, Thompson argues, poverty and police brutality continued to pla...