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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying
A Study in Urban Revolution
Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin; Manning Marable (Foreword)
Pages: 254Edition: Classics Series, Volume 2
ISBN: 0-89608-572-4
Format: cloth
Release Date: 1998-01-01
This book is also available in paper
One of CounterPunch’s Top 100 Non-fiction Works of the 20th Century!
Since its publication in 1975, Detroit: I Do Mind Dying has been widely recognized as one of the most important books on the black liberation movement and labor struggles in the United States.
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tells the remarkable story of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, based in Detroit, and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, two of the most important political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s.
Few books have done as much to shape the consciousness of a generation of activists. The new South End Press edition makes available the full text of this out-of-print classic—along with a new foreword by Manning Marable, interviews with participants in DRUM, and reflections on the political developments over the past three decades by Georgakas and Surkin.
The new edition includes commentary by Detroit activists Sheila Murphy Cockrel, Edna Ewell Watson, Michael Hamlin, and Herb Boyd. All of them reflect not only on the tremendous achievements of DRUM and the League, but on their political legacy—for Detroit, for US politics, and for them personally.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Manning Marable
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction to the First Edition
James Johnson A Prologue
1 Inner City Voice
2 Our Thing is DRUM
3 We Will Take the Hard Line
4 The League of Revolutionary Black Workers
5 Niggermation at Eldon
6 Finally Got the News
7 Black Workers' Congress
8 Stop the Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets: STRESS
9 Mr. Justin Ravitz, Marxist Judge
10 The 54-Hour Week
11 Thirty Years Later
12 The Legacy of DRUM: Four Histories