Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
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Category : Corruption investigation
Languages : en
Pages : 1031
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Feb. 8 and 9 hearings were held in Detroit, Mich.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 1508
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 1604
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Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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Author: Felicia B. George
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 081435078X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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The true story of how Detroit entrepreneurs created a thriving—if illegal—lottery system to support themselves and uplift their communities. A testament to the tenacious spirit embodied in Detroit culture and history, this account reveals how numbers gambling, initially an illegal enterprise, became a community resource and institution of solidarity for Black communities through times of racial disenfranchisement and labor instability. Author Felicia B. George sheds light on the lives of Detroit's numbers operators—many self-made entrepreneurs who overcame poverty and navigated the pitfalls of racism and capitalism by both legal and illegal means. Illegal lottery operators and their families and employees were often exposed to precarity and other adverse conditions, and they profited from their neighbors' hope to make it through another day. Despite scandal and exploitation, these operators and their families also became important members of the community, providing steady employment and financial support for local businesses. This book provides a glimpse into the rich culture and history of Detroit's Black Bottom and Paradise Valley neighborhoods, linking the growing gambling scene there with key characters and moments in local history, including Joe Louis's rise to fame and the recall of a mayor backed by the Ku Klux Klan. In succinct and engrossing chapters, George explores issues of community, race, politics, and the scandals that sprang up along the way, discovering how "playing the numbers" grew from a state-proclaimed crime to an encouraged legal activity.
Author: Bob Morris
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475994370
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
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Ken Morriss journey began one cold Pittsburgh morning in 1935. In the middle of the Great Depression, he was going to see the country as a door-to-door salesman. Detroit was to be his first and last stop. Life was hard and few people during this time of crisis knew how their future would evolve. After months of unemployment, Ken found a job at the Briggs Manufacturing Company, the toughest auto company in Detroit. Ken could not have known then he would eventually play a pioneering role in building one of the cleanest, most socially progressive labor unions the world has known-the United Automobile Workers. In Built in Detroit, author Bob Morris, Kens son, tells not only his fathers story, but also the UAWs story-the battles with companies, the struggles within the union, and then the vicious attacks on Detroit labor leaders in the late 1940s. This story tells of the efforts to investigate these terrorist attacks on Detroits union leaders, including Ken Morris, Walter Reuther and others. This narrative sheds new light on the mystery of who tried to assassinate UAW president Walter Reuther. Rich with personal and historical details, Built in Detroit narrates a story unique to Detroit. It tells the story of a thriving city and the factories that gave the city life. Author Bob Morris deftly portrays many of the top labor leaders of the 1930s and 1940s, as well as the rank and file members who supported these labor leaders. It also provides portraits of early auto industrialists, their companies, their henchmen and the gangsters they hired to destroy the labor movement. In the case of the Briggs Manufacturing Company, it shows how a company that played loose with the law ultimately floundered, its Detroit heritage largely forgotten.
Author: United States. Congress Senate
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Languages : en
Pages : 2268
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Library
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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