Detroit: The Black Bottom Community (Images of America)

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Editorial Reviews

From the Author

The thing that might perhaps set this book aside from others is that it is the first book on Detroit’s Black Bottom community, and it is loaded with great archival photos depicting black and white life in Black Bottom. There certainly are other books on Detroit history that looks at black Detroit history from various angles. Richard Thomas, Elaine Latzman, Herbert Metoyer and Peggy Moore, Ernest Borden, Thomas Sugrue, and many others have written extensively on Detroit’s black history. I think David M. Katzman’s book, Before the Ghetto: Black Detroit in the Nineteenth Century is certainly an seminal work on black Detroit history. All of these books looked at the black community as a whole rather than study Black Bottom as a black community. I think that is what sets this book aside from other attempts.

About the Author

Local historian Jeremy Williams combines careful research with archived photographs for an insightful look at Black Bottom’s early beginnings, its racial transformation, the building of a socioeconomically solvent community through various processes of institution building and networking, and its ultimate demise and the dislocation of its residents. William’s is currently working on new novel, Denico Barbier.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Arcadia Publishing; Illustrated edition (October 26, 2009)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 128 pages

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