A review by bryan8063
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit by Thomas J. Sugrue

4.0

This is a powerful history of Detroit before the infamous 1967 riot. Historian Sugrue lays out an effective argument that Detroit was crumbling economically and systemic racism preyed on more blacks due to migration in the late 1940s and 1950s. All these economic and racial changes made whites nervous and they responded. Readers will learn a lot from this important book.