The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford

Offers a more realistic view of the tensions that existed within the union . . . [and] highlights the role Black organizers played in the UAW drive at Ford.--Against the Current

Black Detroit includes some remarkable and complicated stories [that explore] changing attitudes and realities within the city in a masterful manner. . . . It is an important addition to the Detroit Story.--American Historical Review

A detailed and highly readable history of Ford's industrial goals, his controlling social vision for his workers, and his brutal response to unionization.--TriQuarterly

Recommended. All academic levels/libraries.--Choice

An engaging book, lucidly presented and approachable to anyone with a curious mind.--SpeedReaders.info

Offers a clear and compelling account of Ford's motives for courting blacks.--Speedreaders.info

Combines the broader political, social and economic life of Detroit with the experiences endured at the Ford Motor Company, as African Americans quickened their pace on the long and seemingly never ending march, to paraphrase Martin Luther King Junior, to be treated according to the content of their characters rather than the colour of their skins.--Labour History

Beth Tompkins Bates delves further back than others have into the 1920s and extends her critical eye to community formation and the political activities of Detroit's blacks, many of whom were in the first wave of the Great Migration.--Historian

[This] very readable study will be of enormous interest to historians of the urban and industrial Midwest, to scholars interested in racial formation in the region, and to those who study African American experiences.--Middle West Review