Hard stuff : the autobiography of Coleman Young
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F474.D453 Y68 1994
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F474.D453 Y68 1994
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| Location | Call Number | Status |
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| General Shelving - 3rd Floor | F474.D453 Y68 1994 | On Shelf |
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xxii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-334) and index.
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In his sophisticated, savvy, charismatic, fifty-year career, Mayor Coleman Young has been called many things, and one of them is the most powerful black politician in American history. His account of his epic journey from "Big Time Red" on the Prohibition streets of Detroit to five terms as the city's mayor looks back on decades of activity paralleling every modern African-American movement. Young's family moved from Alabama to Detroit's Black Bottom in the early.
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Twenties. He was an officer in a barely integrated army, a member of the Tuskegee Airmen who called for Eleanor Roosevelt's support when he and fellow black officers were suffering under army Jim Crow laws. He was a labor activist intimately involved in the alliance of white and black workers in the union movement of the thirties and forties. And he was an urban leader who struggled to bring solvency and self-respect to Motor City. His life abounds in colorful anecdote.
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And abrasive repartee. When he was harassed by the House Un-American Activities Committee, his response was: "I consider the activities of this Committee as un-American." This radical visionary and his metropolis are a metaphor for our society. His family history is the territory of Nicholas Lemann's The Promised Land. His eloquence and political passion recall The Autobiography of Malcolm X. His blueprint for the future of urban America is his own, and the problems he.
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Has confronted - crime, police harassment, white flight, unemployment - are ours.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Young, C. A., & Wheeler, L. (1994). Hard stuff: the autobiography of Coleman Young . Viking.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Young, Coleman A and Lonnie. Wheeler. 1994. Hard Stuff: The Autobiography of Coleman Young. New York: Viking.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Young, Coleman A and Lonnie. Wheeler. Hard Stuff: The Autobiography of Coleman Young New York: Viking, 1994.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Young, C. A. and Wheeler, L. (1994). Hard stuff: the autobiography of coleman young. New York: Viking.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Young, Coleman A., and Lonnie Wheeler. Hard Stuff: The Autobiography of Coleman Young Viking, 1994.
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