Detroit's Sojourner Truth Housing Riot of 1942: Prelude to the Race Riot of 1943 Iconoclast Press ISBN13: 9781490819631

ISBN13: 9781490819631

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Reading Women brings into conversation the latest scholarship by early modernists and early Americanists on the role of gender in the production and consumption of texts during this expansion of female readership

Detroit's Sojourner Truth Housing Riot of 1942: Prelude to the Race Riot of 1943 Iconoclast Press ISBN13: 9781490819631During World War II, no American city suffered a worse housing shortage than Detroit, and no one suffered that shortage more than the city's African American citizens. In 1941, the federal government began constructing the Sojourner Truth Housing Project in northeast Detroit to house 200 black war production workers and their families. Almost immediately, whites in the neighborhood vehemently protested. On February 28, 1942, a confrontation between