Detroit, I Do Mind Dying

by Georgakas, Dan; Surkin, Marvin

• ISBN13: 9780896085718
• ISBN10: 0896085716
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-01
• 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 & labor struggle in the United States. It tells the remarkable story of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, based in Detroit, & the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, two of the most important political organizations of the 1960s & 1970s.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xiii
Introduction to the First Edition	p. 1
James Johnson: a Prologue	p. 9
Inner City Voice	p. 13
Our Thing is Drum	p. 23
We Will Take the Hard Line	p. 43
The League of Revolutionary Black Workers	p. 69
Niggermation at Eldon	p. 85
Finally Got the News	p. 107
Black Workers Congress	p. 131
Stop the Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets: Stress	p. 151
Mr. Justin Ravitz, Marxist Judge of Recorder's Court	p. 175
The 54-Hour Week	p. 189
Thirty Years Later	p. 203
The Legacy of Drum: Four Histories	p. 211
Further Reading	p. 235
Index	p. 241
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