Title Run home if you don't want to be killed : the Detroit uprising of 1943 / written and illustrated by Rachel Marie-Crane Williams

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ; [Durham, NC] : in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, 2021

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Description 1 online resource Series Documentary arts and culture Documentary arts and culture. Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- A Note on Language -- Prologue -- 1. No Forgotten Men, No Forgotten Races -- 2. The Four Freedoms: Executive Order 8802 -- 3. Meanwhile, Back in Detroit -- 4. The Sojourner Truth Housing Conflict -- 5. Labor, Race, War: 1941-1943 -- 6. Île aux Cochons, Hog Island, Belle Isle -- 7. Trouble in Paradise: Rumor, Riots, and Rebellion -- 8. Topsy/Eva -- 9. Up and Down the Street -- 10. White Lies -- 11. Aftermath -- 12. Eden -- Coda -- Author's Note -- Glossary of People, Organizations, and Laws -- Notes -- Bibliography Summary "In the heat of June in 1943, a wave of destructive and deadly civil unrest took place in the streets of Detroit. The city was under the pressures of both war-time industrial production and the nascent civil rights movement - a powder keg waiting to go off. Thirty-four people were killed, most were Black, and over half were killed by police. Two thousand people were arrested and over 700 required treatment at local hospitals for their injuries. Property damage was estimated to be nearly two million dollars. Composed of first-hand accounts collected by the NAACP just after the skirmish and research drawn from primary and secondary sources, Rachel Williams delivers a graphic re-telling of the violence and racism in the city's past, combining drawn images, text, and story. The history and impact of these racial rebellions is made clear with Williams' drawings, and in showing us what happened, she reminds us that many issues - like police brutality, economic disparity, and white supremacy - plague our country to this day"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Subject Detroit Race Riot, Detroit, Mich., 1943 -- Comic books, strips, etc Detroit Race Riot, Detroit, Mich., 1943 -- Personal narratives African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc Racism -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Comic books, strips, etc COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction African Americans -- Social conditions Race relations Racism SUBJECT Detroit (Mich.) -- Race relations -- Comic books, strips, etc Subject Michigan -- Detroit Genre/Form Comics (Graphic works) Historical comics Nonfiction comics Personal narratives Nonfiction comics. Historical comics. Bandes dessinées autres que de fiction. Bandes dessinées historiques. Form Electronic book Author Duke University. Center for Documentary Studies, publisher ISBN 9781469663296 1469663295

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