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Detroit : I do mind dying : a study in urban revolution Cover Image Book Book

Detroit : I do mind dying : a study in urban revolution / Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin ; foreword by Manning Marable.

Georgakas, Dan, (author.). Surkin, Marvin, (author.). Marable, Manning, 1950-2011 (writer of supplementary textual content.).

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  • ISBN: 1608462218
  • ISBN: 9781608462216
  • Physical Description: xx, 254 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: Third Edition.
  • Publisher: Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, 2012.

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Previous edition: Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press, 1998.
"An updated edition of the classic account of revolutionary Black workers in Detroit"--Cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Subject: African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > Social conditions.
Working class > Michigan > Detroit.
African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > Politics and government.
Working class > Political activity > Michigan > Detroit.
Detroit (Mich.) > Race relations.

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at GRPL.

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Main 301.45196 G293d 2012 (Text) 31307022811444 Non Fiction Available -
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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying : A Study in Urban Revolution
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying : A Study in Urban Revolution
by Surkin, Marvin; Georgakas, Dan
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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying : A Study in Urban Revolution


Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as they became two of the landmark political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely heralded as one the most important books on the black liberation movement. Marvin Surkin received his PhD in political science from New York University and is a specialist in comparative urban politics and social change. He worked at the center of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit. Dan Georgakas is a writer, historian, and activist with a long-time interest in social movements. He is the author of My Detroit, Growing up Greek and American in Motor City .
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