Run Home If You Don't Want to Be Killed: The Detroit Uprising of 1943

by Rachel Williams

Book Overview

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 wartime industrial production and the nascent civil rights movement, setting the stage for massive turmoil and racial violence. Thirty-four people were killed, most of whom were Black, and over half of these were killed by police. Two thousand people were arrested, and over seven hundred sustained...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469663279
• ISBN13: 9781469663272
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.7" x 9.9"