Detroit

by Georgakas, Dan; Surkin, Marvin

• ISBN13: 9780896085725
• ISBN10: 0896085724
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-02-01
• Publisher: South End Pr

Summary

Since 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii	(2)
Foreword	ix	(4)
Preface to the Second Edition	xiii
Introduction to the First Edition	1	(8)
James Johnson: A Prologue	9	(4)
1. Inner City Voice	13	(10)
2. Our Thing Is DRUM	23	(20)
3. We Will Take the Hard Line	43	(26)
4. The League of Revolutionary Black Workers	69	(16)
5. Niggermation at Eldon	85	(22)
6. Finally Got the News	107	(24)
7. Black Workers Congress	131	(20)
8. Stop the Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets: STRESS	151	(24)
9. Mr. Justin Ravitz, Marxist Judge	175	(14)
10. The 54-Hour Week	189	(14)
11. Thirty Years Later	203	(8)
12. The Legacy of DRUM: Four Histories	211	(24)
Further Reading	235	(6)
Index	241	(15)
About South End Press	256