Author: David Maraniss
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147674839X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Explores everything that made Detroit great--from the auto industry visionaries to influential labor leaders to the hit-makers of Motown--while demonstrating how there were hints of the citys tragic collapse decades before the riot, years of civic corruption, and neglect took their toll.
Once in a Great City
Author: David Maraniss
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147674839X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Explores everything that made Detroit great--from the auto industry visionaries to influential labor leaders to the hit-makers of Motown--while demonstrating how there were hints of the citys tragic collapse decades before the riot, years of civic corruption, and neglect took their toll.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147674839X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Explores everything that made Detroit great--from the auto industry visionaries to influential labor leaders to the hit-makers of Motown--while demonstrating how there were hints of the citys tragic collapse decades before the riot, years of civic corruption, and neglect took their toll.
Games of Discontent
Author: Harry Blutstein
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228006937
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The year 1968 was ablaze with passion and mayhem as protests erupted in Paris and Prague, throughout the United States, and in cities on all continents. The Summer Olympic Games in Mexico were to be a moment of respite from chaos. But the image of peace – a white dove – adopted by organizers was an illusion, as was obvious to a record six hundred million people watching worldwide on satellite television. Ten days before the opening ceremony, soldiers slaughtered hundreds of student protesters in the capital. In Games of Discontent Harry Blutstein presents vivid accounts of threatened boycotts to protest racism in the United States, South Africa, and Rhodesia. He describes demonstrations by Czechoslovak gold medal gymnast Věra Čáslavská against the Soviet-led invasion of her country. The most dramatic moment of the Olympic Games was Tommie Smith and John Carlos's black power salute from the podium. Blutstein furnishes new details behind their protest and examines how this iconic image seared itself into historical memory, inspiring Colin Kaepernick and a new generation of athlete-activists to take a knee against racism decades later. The 1968 Summer Games became a microcosm of the discord happening around the globe. Describing a range of protest activities preceding and surrounding the 1968 Olympics, Games of Discontent shines light on the world during a politically transformative moment when discontents were able, for the first time, to globalize their protests.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228006937
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The year 1968 was ablaze with passion and mayhem as protests erupted in Paris and Prague, throughout the United States, and in cities on all continents. The Summer Olympic Games in Mexico were to be a moment of respite from chaos. But the image of peace – a white dove – adopted by organizers was an illusion, as was obvious to a record six hundred million people watching worldwide on satellite television. Ten days before the opening ceremony, soldiers slaughtered hundreds of student protesters in the capital. In Games of Discontent Harry Blutstein presents vivid accounts of threatened boycotts to protest racism in the United States, South Africa, and Rhodesia. He describes demonstrations by Czechoslovak gold medal gymnast Věra Čáslavská against the Soviet-led invasion of her country. The most dramatic moment of the Olympic Games was Tommie Smith and John Carlos's black power salute from the podium. Blutstein furnishes new details behind their protest and examines how this iconic image seared itself into historical memory, inspiring Colin Kaepernick and a new generation of athlete-activists to take a knee against racism decades later. The 1968 Summer Games became a microcosm of the discord happening around the globe. Describing a range of protest activities preceding and surrounding the 1968 Olympics, Games of Discontent shines light on the world during a politically transformative moment when discontents were able, for the first time, to globalize their protests.
Michigan History Magazine
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
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Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
BSEIU Leadership News
Author: Building Service Employees' International Union
Publisher:
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Category : Building-service employees
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Building-service employees
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 2348
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 2348
Book Description
Sports Illustrated
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
Book Description
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
Book Description
Who was who in America
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Ebony
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
Ebony
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
Amateur Athlete
Author: Amateur Athletic Union of the United States
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Athletics
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Athletics
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description