The Detroit I See, Then And Now
Author: Quenzella Carter
Publisher:
Published: 2006-02
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780805970241
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Detroit Then and Now
Author: Cheri Y. Gay
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFamous the world over for automobile manufacture and the distinctive sounds of Motown music, Detroit, the Motor City, celebrated its 300th birthday in 2001. "Detroit Then and Now" is a fascinating look at this city's great history, taking historic photographs from the dawn of the camera age and comparing them with full-color photographs of the same scenes today.
Detroit
Author: Michel Arnaud
Publisher: ABRAMS
Published: 2017-04-11
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1683350030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDetroit: The Dream Is Now is a visual essay on the rebuilding and resurgence of the city of Detroit by photographer Michel Arnaud, co-author of Design Brooklyn. In recent years, much of the focus on Detroit has been on the negative stories and images of shuttered, empty buildings—the emblems of Detroit’s financial and physical decline. In contrast, Arnaud aims his lens at the emergent creative enterprises and new developments taking hold in the still-vibrant city. The book explores Detroit’s rich industrial and artistic past while giving voice to the dynamic communities that will make up its future. The first section provides a visual tour of the city’s architecture and neighborhoods, while the remaining chapters focus on the developing design, art, and food scenes through interviews and portraits of the city’s entrepreneurs, artists, and makers. Detroit is the story of an American city in flux, documented in Arnaud’s thought-provoking photographs.
Historic Photos of Detroit in the 50s, 60s, and 70s
Author: Mary J. Wallace
Publisher: Turner
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781596528000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1950s, 60s, and 70s saw some of the most defining moments in our nation's history, and Detroit remained at the forefront during these decades of change. A companion book to Historic Photos of Detroit, Historic Photos of Detroit in the 50s, 60s, and 70s follows life, government, and events throughout Motor City's history, from its booming population, pro-sports reputation, and thriving automobile industry in the 50s; to the birth of Motown Records and the Detroit riot in the 60s; to a declining population, oil crisis, and expanding music scene in the 70s. This book illustrates the participants, riots, triumphs, and tragedies of this period through the lens of hundreds of historic photographs, published in striking black and white.
Whose Detroit?
Author: Heather Ann Thompson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2017-04-01
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1501709224
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Thompson's engrossing book is essential for any collection on the history, politics, or society of post–World War II America."― Library Journal In Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the African American struggles for full equality and equal justice under the law that shaped the Motor City during the 1960s and 1970s. Even after Great Society liberals committed themselves to improving conditions in Detroit, Thompson argues, poverty and police brutality continued to plague both neighborhoods and workplaces. Frustration with entrenched discrimination and the lack of meaningful remedies not only led black residents to erupt in the infamous urban uprising of 1967, but it also sparked myriad grassroots challenges to postwar liberalism in the wake of that rebellion. With deft attention to the historical background and to the dramatic struggles of Detroit's residents, and with a new prologue that argues for the ways in which the War on Crime and mass incarceration also devastated the Motor City over time, Thompson has written a biography of an entire nation at a time of crisis.
Motor City Muse
Author: Nancy Watson Barr
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9780895581686
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Included are over 80 photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Dave Jordano, Karin Jobst, Detroiters Nicola Kuperus and Bill Rauhauser, along with select members of the Detroit School of Automotive Photography"
(Detroit, Mich.) ... March 29, 1974
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Transportation
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHidden History of Detroit
Author: Amy Elliott Bragg
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2011-10-20
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1614233454
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Engaging” stories of what the Motor City was like before the invention of the motor, with photos and illustrations (Detroit Metro-Times). Long before it became the twentieth-century automotive capital, Detroit was a muddy port town full of grog shops, horse races, haphazard cemeteries, and enterprising bootstrappers from all over the world. In this lively book you’ll discover the city’s forgotten history and meet a variety of unforgettable characters—the argumentative French fugitive who founded the city; the tobacco magnate who haunts his shuttered factory; the gambler prankster millionaire who built a monument to himself; the governor who brought his scholarly library with him on canoe expeditions; and the historians who helped create the story of Detroit as we know it: one of the oldest, rowdiest, and most enigmatic cities in the Midwest.
Detroit's Got Soul
Author: Marc Humphries
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2010-06-10
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1450232264
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing the devastating 1967 rebellion in Detroit, Frank Waterman searches his soul for what he can do to give his family and community hope. Negroes have become blacks, whites have taken flight to the suburbs and the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit wants to close nearly all of its inner-city schools, including Visitation, where the Waterman family attends school and church. But the Watermans have a different idea save the schools save the children! Frank has quit the security and comfort of his position as an insurance salesman in order to direct a yet-to-be-established City Club community center near Dexter Blvd. on Detroits west side. Things heat up for the Waterman family as heroin use explodes in Detroit like an atomic bomb and the police seem to run amuck under a new tactical unit called STRESS. Meanwhile Mike, the eldest of the three Waterman children, and his St. Martin DePorres (newly merged) basketball team prepare to compete for the city title against neighborhood rival Central High School. Some of the elders in the neighborhood warn the children Be careful where you step, its a mine-field out there. But Frank tells his family and community to Keep pushing... we can reach our higher goal, because Detroits got soul.
