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"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"--… (más)
I really admired the author's Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching, but this work falls too short of that for me: a little too dramatized to be a strict history, a lot too dull to be an engrossing narrative.
While the events and social factors leading up to the uprising are laid out fairly well, the days of violence themselves come across as muddled and ill-defined as the book drills in close to show the specific stories of a handful of victims of white supremacy and police brutality at the apparent cost of presenting the bigger picture of what was happening throughout the city.
The writing is flat and the art unpolished and static, with way too many talking heads even in moments of action.
FOR REFERENCE:
Contents: [Editor's introduction by Alexa Dilworth, Wesley Hogan, Tom Rankin] -- 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 ["Belle Isle, 1949" by Philip Levine, from They Feed They Lion and The Names of the Lost: Poems] ( )
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And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear . . . that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity. - Martin Luther King Jr., March 14, 1968
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Dedicated with love to the city of Detroit, historians, librarians, archivists, comic geeks, my friends, and my family, especially Rylie, Jack, and Don. Thank you for putting up with hours of drawing, frozen pizza, the Photoshop and InDesign rabbit holes, research trips, piles of papers and books, and twelve years of work. Your love and support made it possible.
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"Detroit" means "strait," a body of water that connects two larger bodies of water.
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Detroit will rise from the ashes again and again and again.
Back panting to the gray coarse beach we didn't dare fall on, the damp piles of clothes, and dressing side by side in silence to go back where we came from. [Coda - "Belle Isle, 1949" by Philip Levine]
"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"--
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While the events and social factors leading up to the uprising are laid out fairly well, the days of violence themselves come across as muddled and ill-defined as the book drills in close to show the specific stories of a handful of victims of white supremacy and police brutality at the apparent cost of presenting the bigger picture of what was happening throughout the city.
The writing is flat and the art unpolished and static, with way too many talking heads even in moments of action.
FOR REFERENCE:
Contents: [Editor's introduction by Alexa Dilworth, Wesley Hogan, Tom Rankin] -- 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 ["Belle Isle, 1949" by Philip Levine, from They Feed They Lion and The Names of the Lost: Poems] (