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Abdelkader, Justin
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem
Abel, Sid
Ackerman, John
Adams, Jack
Adkins, Larry
African American Detroiters: auto-industry workers; black music scene and entertainment industry; business owners and entrepreneurs; and the Detroit Police Department; and Detroit’s 1968 Olympic bid; the 1863 race riot and immigrants’ attacks on; Great Migration; hiring discrimination; housing discrimination; Joe Louis as hero to; and Polish American communities; poverty and income inequality; racial tensions and urban rebellions of the 1960s; Red Wings’ hockey fans; unions and organized labor; wartime production efforts; Young as first black mayor. See also civil rights movement; Negro League baseball; race relations; segregation, racial Aguirre, Mark
Albom, Mitch
Alexander, Michelle
Algonquin peoples
Ali, Muhammad
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL)
Amazon (company)
Ambassador Bridge
America First Committee
America First Party
American Association (baseball league)
American Federation of Labor (AFL). See also unions and organized labor American Metal Products (company)
American Negro League. See also negro league baseball
American Trotting Association
Anderson, Elizabeth
Angelou, Maya
anti-Catholicism
Anti-Saloon League
anti-Semitism: and baseball’s Greenberg; Coughlin’s; Detroit of the 1930s; Henry Ford’s; racism and
Arab American athletes
Araton, Harvey
Archer, Dennis
Armstrong, Louis
Arnow, Harriet
Artest, Ron (Metta World Peace)
Auker, Elden “Submarine”
Austin, Richard
auto industry of Detroit: African American workers; bailouts; cars and production in the 1950s; and German and Japanese manufacturers; Great Depression; late nineteenth and early twentieth century; mass production innovations; and New Deal; race-based hiring discrimination; recession of 2008 and Big Three automakers; recession of the early 1980s; union organizing and unionized labor; wartime production. See also Chrysler Corporation; Ford Motor Company; General Motors (GM); United Automobile Workers (UAW)
Axelrod, David
B-24 bombers
Backus, Jeff
Bacon, John U.
Baer, Max
Baggattaway. See also lacrosse
Baker, Bonnie
Baldwin, James
Baltimore Orioles
Bankhead, Tallulah
Barbaro, Francesco “Frank”
Barkley, Charles
baseball, major league, early radio broadcasts; early twentieth century; integration of; players association; players strike (1994); racism in; Reserve Clause; segregation of; and World War II. See also baseball, minor league; baseball, nineteenth-century; Detroit Tigers; World Series (MLB)
baseball, minor league: African American players; during and after World War II; Ilitch.
baseball, nineteenth-century: Detroit Wolverines and professional leagues; the 1887 World Series; first game in Detroit (1859); founding of the National League; pre–Civil War clubs. See also Major League Baseball
Baseball Hall of Fame
Basie, Count
basketball. See National Basketball Association
Battle of Bloody Run (1763)
“Battle of the Overpass” (1937)
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
Beck, Mary
Bedrock company
beer gardens (1850s)
Beers, William
Belêtre, Sieur de
The Bell Curve (Herrnstein and Murray)
Belle Isle; IndyCar races; and 1943 race riot
Belt, Brandon
Bennett, Charlie
Bennett, Gordon C.
Bennett, Harry; as head of Ford’s Service Department; and Jesse Owens’s position at Ford; and 1932 Ford Hunger March
Bennett Park
Benz, Karl
Bernhard, Diane
Bernstein, Abe
Berris, Bill
Bethlehem Steel
Bigelow, Kathryn
billiards
Billups, Chauncey
Bing, Dave
Bird, Larry
Black Bottom: Coleman Young’s early life; Italian American community; and Joe Louis; Mack Park; the 1943 race riot; Purple Gang during Prohibition; razing of neighborhood (1950s); Robinson’s early life in; urban renewal
Black Historic Sites Committee
Black Legion
The Black Messiah (Cleage)
Black Sox scandal (1919)
Blackburn, Jack
Blagojevich, Rod
“blind pigs” (after-hours clubs)
Blount, John “Tenny”
Bogart, Humphrey
Bolshevik revolution
Book Tower
bootlegging
border, U.S.-Canadian; and an Olympic Games of the future; and Detroit as border town/foreign territory; and Detroit Grand Prix; and Detroit Red Wings hockey; Eminem’s “Imported from Detroit” (2011 Chrysler ad); Gordie Howe International Bridge; Prohibition-era; relationships between Canadians and Detroiters; and the Underground Railroad. See also Canada
Borowy, Hank
Boston Braves
Boston Celtics
Boston Red Sox
Bouton, Jim
Bowery (Hamtramck nightclub)
Bowie, David
Bowles, Charles
Bowman, Scotty
boxing: Barbaro’s “White Hope” tournament (1941); Detroit tradition of; Hearns-Hagler fight (1985); Kronk Gym; Louis’s career; Louis-Schmeling fights (1930s); Robinson-LaMotta fights; Robinson’s career; trainer and entrepreneur Emanuel Steward. See also Hearns, Tommy; Kirschenbaum, Stuart; Louis, Joe; Robinson, Sugar Ray
Boyle, Kevin
Braddock, James Walter
Bradley, Bill
Bradley, Jennifer
Brant, Robin
Brennan Pool
Brewer, Clarence
Brewster Recreation Center
Bridges, Tommy
Briggs, Harvey
Briggs, Walter
Briggs Stadium
British colonization of Michigan territory
Brooklyn Dodgers
brothels and prostitution: in 1850s Detroit; Prohibition-era
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Brown, Larry
Brown Bombers
Browne, Ernest, Jr.
Brundage, Avery: and Detroit’s bids to host Olympic Games; Sports Illustrated profile (1956)
Brush, Edmund
Brush, Elijah
Brush Park
Bryant, Howard
Buckley, Gerald
Bulla, Joseph
Burghley, Lord David
Burns, Tommy
Burr, Bill
Bush, George H.W.
Bush, George W.
Buszka, Arlene
Cabrera, Miguel
Cadillac, Antoine de la Mothe
Cadillac Motor Company
Calgary Flames
Calloway, Cab
Camden Yards
Cameron, Lucille
Campau, D.J.
Campau, Joseph
Campus Martius
Canada: co-hosted Olympic Games of the future; and Detroit Red Wings; Gordie Howe International Bridge; hockey tradition; lacrosse; and Prohibition; relationships between Canadians and Detroiters; Windsor, Ontario; women’s softball. See also border, U.S.- Canadian
Cannon, Jimmy
Capitol Park
Capra, Frank
Carlisle, Rick
Carlos, John
Carnera, Primo
Carter, Jimmy
Cartier, Jacques
Cash, Johnny
Cass Corridor
Cass Farm
Cass Tech High School
Cavalieri, Lincoln
Cavanagh, Jerome: and Detroit’s 1968 Summer Olympic bid; and Detroit’s “open occupancy” ordinance; and downtown stadium plans; and the 1967 uprising; and racial tensions of the 1960s; support for racial justice and civil rights; and the Tigers’ 1968 World Series win
Chadwick, Henry
Chafets, Ze’ev
Chalmers, Hugh
Chalmers Batting Race
Chalmers Motor Company
Chamberlain, Marvin
“Champion of the World” (Angelou)
“Champions Day” (April 18, 1936)
Champlain, Samuel de
Chevrolet
Chevrolet, Louis
Chicago American Giants
Chicago Bears
Chicago Black Hawks
Chicago Bulls
Chicago Cubs
Chicago Defender
Chicago Tribune
Chicago White Sox
Chrysler, Walter
Chrysler Corporation; and Chalmers’s car company; Conner Creek plant; Eminem’s 2011 Super Bowl ad; government bailouts; and the 2008 recession
Churchill, Winston
Cincinnati Red Stockings
Cinderella Man (film)
Citizens’ Charter Committee
City Council of Detroit
CityLab
Civil Rights Act (1964)
civil rights movement; fair employment legislation; Motown recordings; participants’ varying opinions on strategies; and the UAW; and urban rebellions of the 1960s; Walk to Freedom (1963)
Civil War
Cleage, Albert, Jr.
“Cleaners and Dyers War”
Cleveland, Clyde
Cleveland Browns
Cleveland Indians
Cleveland Naps
Clifton, Flea
Club Necaxa (Mexican Liga MX team)
Coates, Ta-Nehisi, “The Case for Reparations”
Cobb, Ty; Chalmers Batting Race; and Negro League baseball; racism, temper, and controversial reputation; salary and endorsements; and Tiger Stadium; Triple Crown
Cobo, Albert
Cobo Arena
Cobo Center
Cobo Hall
Coca-Cola
Cochrane, Mickey (“Black Mike”)
Cochrane Plan
Cold War
Cole, Nat King
Coleman, Silas
Coleman A. Young building
Collins, Fred
Coltrane, John
Comerica Park
Committee of Fair Employment Practices
Common Council of Detroit
Communist Party
Comstock, William
Conant Gardens
Cooper, Michael
Cooper, Tom
Corriden, Red
Coughlin, Charles; antiunion messages; and Louis-Schmeling fight; populist racism and anti-Semitism; radio broadcasts
Council Point Park
Couzens, Frank
Couzens, James: Detroit municipal politics; and Ford Motor Company; and Ford’s $5-per-day wage; and Kronk Gym
Crain’s Detroit Business
Cramer, Doc
Cream
cricket
crime: Devil’s Night fires and images of decaying Detroit; the 1850s; the 1960s; the 1970s and Young’s first term as mayor; the 1980s (Detroit’s violent reputation); police department’s STRESS (Stop The Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets) unit; and the politics of race; poverty and; Prohibition-era gangland violence
The Cross and the Flag (propaganda magazine)
Crowder, Alvin “General”
Cuban baseball players
Cullenbine, Roy
Cumings, Henry
Cummings, Savannah
Cusimano, Pete and Jerry
Daimler, Gottlieb
Dallas Cowboys
Dallas Mavericks
Daly, Chuck
“Dancing in the Street” (Martha and the Vandellas)
Darrow, Clarence
David Stott Building
Davidson, Bill
Davis, Al
Davis, Bette
Davis, Harvey
Davis, Miles
De Rotterdammer (Dutch newspaper)
Dean, Dayton
Dearborn Independent
Degener, Dick
Delaney, Tim
Delvecchio, Alex
Dempsey, Jack
Dequindre Cut
Derek, Bo
Derringer, Paul
Desnoyers, Peter
Detroit (Bigelow film)
Detroit Athletic Club (DAC)
Detroit Automobile Company
Detroit Base Ball Club
Detroit Board of Commerce
Detroit Chamber of Commerce
Detroit Citizens League (DCL)
Detroit City Fieldhouse
Detroit City Football Club (DCFC) (“City”)
Detroit City Plan Commission
Detroit City Railway Company
Detroit Club
Detroit Cougars
Detroit Council for Human Rights (DCHR)
Detroit Creams
Detroit Driving Club
Detroit Edison
Detroit Federation of Labor
Detroit Free Press: on the Black Legion; on celebrations after Louis’s defeat of Schmeling (1938); on celebrations after Tigers’ 1968 World Series; on Detroit Grand Prix; on Detroit’s bid to host 1956 Olympics; on District Detroit opening; on downtown stadium debate; on early Detroit baseball clubs; on Ford-Winton motor car race (1901); on Hearns-Hagler fight (1985); on horse trotting races; on Joe Louis; on the Lions’ 1970 season; on Mary Beck’s mayoral platform; on the 1943 race riot; on the 1967 uprising; obituary for Charles Roxborough; on the Pistons’ departure for Pontiac; on the Pistons’ “Goin’ to Work” ethic; on Red Wings hockey; on Sugar Ray Robinson’s defeat to LaMotta; on team owners; on women’s baseball during World War II; on worst mayors
Detroit Grand Prix
Detroit Hockeytown (sports bar)
Detroit Housing Commission
Detroit Industrial Murals (Rivera)
Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA)
Detroit Lions; games at Tiger Stadium; influential player Bobby Layne; integration and first black players; move to Pontiac; new downtown stadium; NFL championship (1935); NFL championship game (1957); the 1970 season revival; the 2003 and 2004 seasons; the 2008 season and team; and William Clay Ford
Detroit Medical Center
Detroit Metro Times
Detroit News: on automobile fatalities in the 1920s; on Battle of the Overpass (1937); on Gilbert development projects; on the Ilitches’ District Detroit project; on the Lions’ 2008 season; on the Pistons; Willie Horton interview post-1968 uprising
Detroit Olympic Committee
Detroit Olympic Organizing Committee
Detroit Olympics (hockey team)
Detroit Pistons; African American fans; announced plans to move to Pontiac; Bad Boys of the 1980s; “Goin’ to Work” ethic; Isiah Thomas; loss to the Lakers in 1988 NBA finals; “Malice at the Palace” (2004); “Pathetic Pistons”; return to downtown; team owner Davidson; the 2003–4 season
Detroit Plaindealer
Detroit Police Department: and African American community; creation (1865); criminal justice and racial disparities; and Mayor Young; and the 1943 race riots; pensions; racial tensions of the 1960s and early 1970s; ratio of officers to citizens (1970/2012); STRESS (Stop The Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets) unit; Tommy Hearns’s street patrol work with; uprising of 1967 as reaction to
Detroit Public Library: Detroit Olympics Archive; photo exhibit of razed Black Bottom neighborhood (2019)
Detroit Race Course in Livonia
Detroit Red Wings; African American fans; Canadian fans, players, and influences; “Dead Wings” era; at District Detroit; Ilitch as owner; Lindsay’s efforts to establish players union; Olympia Stadium home; plans to move to Pontiac; “Production Line” players of the 1950s; “Russian Five” team; Stanley Cup victories
Detroit Renaissance Inc. and the Detroit Grand Prix; and downtown stadium plans
Detroit River
Detroit Roller Derby league
Detroit Shocks
Detroit Stars
Detroit Tigers; Cobb and; early radio broadcasts; Ilitch as owner; integration; last game played at Tiger Stadium; Monaghan as owner; new stadium negotiations; the 1935 World Series and team; the 1945 World Series; the 1967 team and season; the 1968 World Series and team; the 1984 World Series and team; the 1996 season; the 2012 World Series’ loss
Detroit Tribune
Detroit Union Railway (DUR)
Detroit uprising (1967); Algiers Motel incident; and Governor Romney; and Mayor Cavanagh; media accounts; Willie Horton interview
Detroit Wolverines
Detroit YMCA
Detroit-Windsor road tunnel
Devellano, Jim
Devil’s Night: And Other True Tales of Detroit (Chafets)
Devil’s Night fires (early 1980s)
Didrikson, Babe
The District Detroit
Dixie Oils
Doak, William
Dodge Main
Domino, Fats
Domino’s Pizza
Donaldson, John
downtown Detroit redevelopment; debates over new sports stadium site; Detroit Renaissance Inc. and Detroit revival; Ford and Michigan Central Station; Gilbert’s projects and properties; Ilitches and District Detroit; Lafayette Park; Mayor Archer and Tigers’ stadium negotiations; Mayor Young’s new stadium; Poletown neighborhood and new GM plant; urban renewal and “black removal”
Draper, Hal
Du Bois, W. E. B.
Duggan, Mike
Dumars, Joe
Duran, Roberto
Durant, William
Duryea Motor Wagon Company
Dylan, Bob
Dziuk, Constantine
The Eagles
Early Risers Base Ball Club
Earth, Wind & Fire
Easley, Damion
Eastern Colored League. See also Negro Leagues
Eastern High School
Eastern Market
economic collapse, Detroit’s; bankruptcy; Devil’s Night fires and images of decaying Detroit; and fight over Poletown demolition; Great Depression; Great Recession (2008–9); Michigan emergency manager law; post–World War II deindustrialization; public employee pensions; recession the early 1980s; white flight and demographic collapse
Edström, Sigfrid
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Eight Mile Road
8 Mile (film)
Eighteenth Amendment
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Ellington, Duke
Elmwood Cemetery
Emergency Manager law (Michigan)
Eminem
Emmons, Harold
Employers’ Association of Detroit
“The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit” (website)
fair employment legislation
Fair Employment Practices Code
Falls, Joe
Farmer, Silas
Faulkner, William (Detroiter)
FC St. Pauli (German Bundesliga 2 club)
FC United (Manchester, England)
Federal Housing Act
Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
Federation of International Lacrosse
Fedorov, Sergei
Fenway Park
Ferguson, Daniel
Fetisov, Slava
Fetzer, John
Fick, Robert
Fielder, Prince
Firemen’s Hall
First National Building
Fisher Building
Fisher Freeway
The Fist (Graham’s Monument to Joe Louis)
Fitzgerald, Ella
Fitzgerald, Frank
Flink, James
Flint sit-down strike (1936–37)
football. See National Football League Ford, Cheryl
Ford Edsel (car)
Ford, Edsel
Ford, Henry; and African American workers; anti-Semitism; anti-union policies; and Couzens; ideas of moral conduct; mass production innovations; motor car racing; and World War II
Ford, Henry, II
Ford, William Clay; and Detroit Lions; downtown redevelopment plans
Ford Continental
Ford Field
Ford Foundation
Ford Hunger March (1932)
Ford Motor Company: African American workers; antiunion policies/tactics; Bennett’s “Service Department”; and Detroit Grand Prix; and Detroit race relations; and downtown redevelopment plans; early motor cars and automobile manufacturing; first factories; $5-per-day wage; and the Great Depression; and Henry Ford’s ideas of moral conduct; Highland Park assembly plant; Joe Louis’s attempt to acquire a Ford dealership; mass production; and 1932 Hunger March; production of the Continental; production of the Edsel Ford; production of the Model T; River Rouge plant; Sociological Department; and the 2008 recession; wartime production; women workforce
Formula One Grand Prix racing
Fort Michilimackinac
Fort Wayne Pistons
Foster, Rube
Foster, Willie
477th Bombardment Group
Fox Office Center
Fox Theatre
Frankensteen, Richard T.
Franklin, Aretha
Franklin, C.L.
“Freeman Field Mutiny” (1945)
French colonization of Michigan territory
French-Indian wars
Friends of Historic Hamtramck Stadium
Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
The Fundamentals (Thomas)
Fyfe, Richard
gambling
Garcia, Karim
Garland, John (Jack)
Garland, William
Gave, Keith
Gawker
Gaye, Marvin
Gehringer, Charlie
General Motors (GM); Flint workers and Great Sit-Down Strike (1936–37); Hamtramck plant; Poletown neighborhood plant; and the Renaissance Center; the 2008 recession and bailout; women production workers during World War II
German Americans: immigrants; prejudice against African Americans and 1863 race riot; and World War I–era anti-German sentiment
Gibbs, Lindsay
Gibson, Bob
Gibson, Kirk
Gilbert, Dan
Gilded Age
Girardin, Charles
Gladwin, Henry
Glidden Tour
Goodman, Benny
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Gordie Howe International Bridge
Gordy, Berry
Gores, Tom
Goslin, Goose
Graham, Robert. See also The Fist
Grand Boulevard
Grand Circus Park
Grand River Avenue
Grand Trunk Western Railroad
Great Depression; anti-capitalist politics; and Detroit auto industry; ethnic and racial prejudice; Father Coughlin; horse racing at State Fairgrounds; and Joe Louis; National Labor Relations Act (NLRA); and Negro League; progressive policies and New Deal; unemployment and economic suffering; union organizing
Great GM Sit-Down Strike (1936–37)
Great Migration
Great Recession and global financial crisis (2008–9)
Green, John
Green Bay Packers
Greenberg, Hank; and anti-Semitism; and the 1935 Tigers; and the 1945 World Series; and the Purple Gang; World War II military service
Gribbs, Roman
Grimm, Charlie
Groomes, Mel
Grosse Pointe, Michigan: motor car racing (1901); racetrack and horse trotting races; residents of French ancestry; techniques of racial segregation
The Guardian
Guardian Industries
Guthrie, Woody
Hagen, Walter
Hagler, Marvin
Hamed, Naseem
Hamilton, Richard
Hamilton, Rip
Hamtramck, Michigan; Detroit City FC and Keyworth Stadium; General Motors plant; Negro League stadium; Polish community; Sojourner Truth housing project
Hamtramck Stadium
Harrison, David
Hart Plaza
Harwell, Ernie
hate strikes (1940s)
Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) nation
Hazel Park Raceway
Hearns, Tommy
Heidelberg Project
Heilmann, Harry
Helpful Hints and Advice to Employees (1915 Ford Motor Company booklet)
Hennessy, Sam
Henry Ford Company
Henry Ford Museum
Hernández, Guillerme “Willie”
Herrnstein, Richard
Highland Park assembly plant
Hines, Sandra
hip-hop culture
Hiram Walker Distillery
hockey. See National Hockey League
Hoffa, Jimmy
Holiday, Billie
Hollinger, William
Hollinger Nine
Holm, Eleanor
Holyfield, Evander
Hooker, John Lee
Hoover, Herbert
Hope, Bob
Horne, Lena
horse racing: pari-mutuel gambling at State Fairgrounds; trotting races of late nineteenth and early twentieth century
Horseless Age (magazine)
Horton, Willie
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
housing discrimination, race-based: home ownership promotion and loans programs of 1960s; “open occupancy” ordinance to mitigate; predatory mortgage lending; restrictive covenants and redlining; and Sojourner Truth housing project
Houston Astrodome
Howe, Gordie
Hudson, Joseph
Hudson Motor Car Company
Hudson’s department store (J.L. Hudson Building)
Hughes, Langston
Hulbert, William
Hunter, Lindsey
“I Have a Dream” (Martin Luther King speech)
Ilitch, Christopher
Ilitch, Mike: and The District Detroit development project; life and career; as Red Wings owner; as Tigers owner
Ilitch Holdings
immigrants: Detroit on the eve of the Civil War; early Ford Motor Company workers; housing shortages and settlement patterns in the 1930s; immigration laws and quotas (1920s); March 1863 race riot and attacks on black Detroiters; and Panic of 1893; racism and prejudice against (Depression-era); racism and prejudice against (World War I–era); Russian hockey players of the 1990s; and white supremacists; whiteness as invented racial category. See also German Americans; Great Migration; Irish Americans; Italian Americans; Polish Americans; Southern white migrants
“Imported from Detroit” (Eminem’s 2011 Chrysler ad)
Indian Village
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Indianapolis Pacers
Inkster, Michigan
International Freedom Festival
International Olympic Committee (IOC): and Detroit’s bid for 1956 Games; and Detroit’s bid for 1968 Games; future games. See also Brundage, Avery; Olympic Games
Interstate Highway System
Iranian Revolution (1979)
Iraq War
Irish Americans
Iroquois Nationals
Italian Americans
Iverson, Allen
Jackson, Austin
Jackson, Bryant
Jackson, Phil
Jackson, Reggie
Jackson, Shoeless Joe
Jackson, Stephen
Jackson State Prison
The Jacksons
Jacobs, Mike
James, Mike
Jefferson Avenue
Jeffries, Edward
Jesse: The Man Who Outran Hitler (Owens)
Jewish Americans: boxer Max Baer; Coughlin’s anti-Semitism; and Ford’s anti-Semitism; Greenberg; and Louis-Schmeling fight (1938); Prohibition-era Purple Gang; and restrictive housing covenants
Jim Crow segregation
Joe Louis Arena
John, Elton
Johnson, Anthony
Johnson, Ban
Johnson, Calvin
Johnson, Jack
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Johnson, Magic
Johnson, Rafer
Jones, Brenda
Jones, Hayes
Jones, Lewis
Jordan, Michael
Kaczynski, Harry
Kahn, Albert
Kaline, Al
Kamper, Louis
Kansas City Monarchs
Kansas City Royals
Kanter, Robert
Kapler, Gabe
Kempner, Aviva
Kennedy, J.J.
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, Robert
Kenty, Hilmer
Keyworth Stadium (Hamtramck)
Kilpatrick, James E. (Scotty)
Kilpatrick, Kwame, King, Charles Brady
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kirby, Gustavus
Kirschenbaum, Stuart
Kitna, Jon
Klitschko, Wladimir
Knickerbocker Club of New York
Knight, Bobby
Knudsen, William
Konstantinov, Vladimir
Kornhauser, Arthur
Koscot Interplanetary Inc.
Kozlov, Slava
Kraemer, Joseph
Kronk, Alphonse
Kronk, John
Kronk Recreation Center (Kronk Gym)
Ku Klux Klan: anti-Catholicism; and conflict over Sojourner Truth Project; Detroit in the 1920s; and the 1943 race riots; and Prohibition movement. See also Black Legion; white supremacism
Kutil, Emily
La Salle, Sieur de
lacrosse
Lafayette Park
Laimbeer, Bill
Lajoie, Nap
Lake St. Clair
LaMotta, Jake
Landis, Kenesaw Mountain
Landry, Greg
Landry, Tom
Lane, Jeffrey
Larionov, Igor
laundry business (1920s)
Layne, Bobby
A League of Their Own (film)
League Park
Lear, William
Led Zeppelin
Lee, Andy
Lee, Cecil
Legler, Tim
Leland, Henry
Lemke, William
Leonard, Sugar Ray
Leslie, Lisa
Lewis, Eugene
Lewis, Lennox
Lewis-Colman, David M.
Light Guard Armory
Limbaugh, Rush
Lincoln Giants
Lindsay, Ted
Lions. See Detroit Lions
Lites, Jim
Little Caesars Arena
Little Caesars Pizza
Locke, Hubert
Lolich, Mickey
Long, Huey
Loomis, Bill
Los Angeles Book Review
Los Angeles Dodgers
Los Angeles Lakers
Los Angeles Raiders
Los Angeles Sparks
Los Angeles Times
lotteries. See also gambling
Louis, Joe; anti-racism activism; attempt to acquire a Ford dealership; and Barbaro’s “White Hope” tournament (1941); as baseball team owner; childhood in Detroit; defeat of Carnera; end of boxing career (1951); The Fist monument; as hero to African American Detroiters; job at Ford; and Kirschenbaum’s memorabilia collection; later years and death; matches against Baer; matches against German boxer Schmeling; and the 1936 Champions Day; and Sugar Ray Robinson; and World War II effort
Louis, Martha
Lucker, Claude
Mack Park
MacPhail, Larry
MacSkimming, Roy
Mahorn, Rick
Major League Baseball (MLB). See baseball, major league
Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA)
Major League Soccer (MLS)
Malice Aforethought (Beer)
“Malice at the Palace” (2004)
Mann, Bob
Mann Act
Mantle, Mickey
Maravich, Pete
March on Washington (1963)
March on Washington Movement
Marciano, Rocky
Marinelli, Rod
Martel, Francis
Martha and the Vandellas
Martin, Ed
Martin Luther King High School
The Marvelettes
Marx Brothers
Masonic Temple
Massie, James
Matish, George
Matthaei, Fred: Detroit’s 1956 Olympic bid; Detroit’s 1968 Olympic bid
Maxwell Motor Company
Maybury, William
Mayo, Eddie
Mayor’s Unemployment Committee
McAuliffe, Dick
McCabe, Robert
McCarthy, Joseph
McCarthyism
McCrory, Milton
McCrory, Steve
McGee, Melvin
McGraw, Billy
McLain, Denny
McMillin, Bo
McNamara, Ed
McNamara, Robert
Media Matters
Mein Kampf (Hitler)
Men’s Journal
Merriweather, Maceo
Mexican Americans
Mexicantown
Michigan Car Company
Michigan Central Station
Michigan State Fairgrounds: horse racing; motor racing; and 1956 Olympic bid; and 1968 Olympic bid; as site for possible downtown stadium
Michigan State Senate
Michigan Theater
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
Miler, Johnny
Miles, Tiya
Millen, Matt
Miller, Glenn
Miller, J. Howard
Miller, Marvin
Milliken, William
Milliken State Park wetlands demonstration area
Milton-Jones, Delisha
Milwaukee Bucks
Minnesota Vikings, “Model Cities” task force
Model T Ford
Monaghan, Tom
Moneyball (Lewis)
monopolies, business
Monroe, Rose Will
Montana, Joe
Montgomery, Jeff
Montreal Canadiens
Montreux-Detroit Kool Jazz Festival (1982)
Monument to Joe Louis. See The Fist
Moore, Bill
Morley, Christopher, viii
Morris, Ada
Morris, Jack
Mortimer, Wyndham
motor racing: the 1900s; Detroit Grand Prix
Motown Museum (“Hitsville U.S.A.”)
Motown Records
Movement Electronic Music Festival
Muhammad, Elijah
Muhammad, Wallace Fard
Murphy, Frank
Murray, Charles
music and entertainment industry: Motown; the 1920s; the 1950s; the 1960s
Mussolini, Benito
My Name Is Ossian Sweet (Bennett)
The Nation
Nation of Islam
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
National Association of Real Estate Boards
National Basketball Association (NBA): black players, white players, and basketball’s myth of blackness; Central Division of Eastern Conference and finals; and “Malice at the Palace” (2004); mandatory dress code; players association. See also Detroit Pistons
National Basketball Players Association
National Cash Register (NCR) Company
National Catholic Welfare Council
National Football League (NFL): draft system; expansion and new playoff system (1970); players’ association; racial integration. See also Detroit Lions; Super Bowl (NFL)
National Guard
National Hockey League (NHL): Big Six era; Detroit hockey tradition; Lindsay’s efforts to establish players union; and rival World Hockey Association; Russian players. See also Detroit Red Wings; Stanley Cup (NHL)
National Hockey League Players’ Association (NHLPA)
National Independent Soccer Association (NISA)
National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
National Negro Congress
National Premier Soccer League
National Register of Historic Places
National Union for Social Justice (NUSJ)
Native Americans
Navin, Frank
Navin Field
Navy Relief Society
Nazi Germany: Louis-Schmeling boxing matchups; start of World War II; white supremacism. See also Hitler, Adolf
Negro American League
Negro League baseball; Cobb and; Detroit Stars; first Detroit night game; Hamtramck Stadium
Negro National League (NNL)
The Negro Soldier (film)
Negro World Series
Neolin (Lenni Lenape prophet)
New Bethel Baptist Church
New Deal
New Jersey Nets
The New Jim Crow (Alexander)
New York Giants (baseball)
New York Giants (NFL)
New York Mets
New York Rangers
New York Times: Chafets on Detroit crime and race; Chafets on Devil’s Night tradition; on Isiah Thomas and the Pistons; on Joe Louis; on Kilpatrick and the Pistons; on the Lions’ 2008 season; on “Malice at the Palace” and black NBA players; on the 1943 race riot; on Reagan Recession and unemployment; Romney on 2008 auto industry bailout; on white European immigrants of 1920s
New York Yankees
Newberry, John
Newhouser, Hal
Newsweek
Nichols, John
Nixon, Richard
Nolan, Deanna
Non-Aligned Movement
Norris, Bruce
Norris, James
Northern Guard Supporters (NGS)
Northville Downs
Northwest Ordinance (1787)
Northwestern High School
“Notes of a Native Son” (Baldwin)
Oates, Joyce Carol
Obama, Barack
O’Brien, Thomas
Odawa (Ottawa) peoples
oil prices
Ojibwa (Chippewa) peoples
Okrent, Daniel
Oldfield, Barney
Olds, Ransom E.
Olympia Development
Olympia Stadium; boxing events; as home of the Red Wings; music events
Olympic Association of Southern California
Olympic Games: in 1932 (Los Angeles); in 1936 (Berlin); in 1940 (cancelled); in 1944 (cancelled); in 1948 (London); in 1952 (Helsinki); in 1956 (Melbourne); in 1960 (Rome); in 1964 (Tokyo); in 1968 (Mexico City); in 1984 (Los Angeles); in 1992 (Barcelona); in 2032 (a Detroit of the future)
Olympic Games (Detroit’s bids to host): Brundage and; debates about building an Olympic Stadium; Matthaei and; the 1928 Games; the 1940 Games; the 1944 Games; the 1948 Games; the 1952 Games; the 1956 Games; the 1968 Games
Omaha Knights
One Woodward
O’Neal, Jermaine
O’Neal, Shaquille
The Origins of the Urban Crisis (Sugrue)
Orlovsky, Dan
Orr, Kevyn
Outlaw, Jimmy
Owens, Jesse; the 1936 Berlin Olympics; position at Ford Motor Company
Packard Local
Paddock, Charley
Pagán, Ángel
Palace of Auburn Hills
Palmer, Dean
Panic of 1893
Paradise Valley
Parker, Candace
Parker, Charlie
Parker, Theodore
Parkman, Francis
Parks, Rosa
Patterson, John
Patterson, L. Brooks
Paul, Jimmy
Paulson, William
Pearl Harbor attack (1941)
Peltier, Charles
Pence, Hunter
Peninsula Cricket Club
pensions: and Father Coughlin’s populist platform; how teams function for franchise owners; National Hockey League; for public employees
People Mover
People’s Voice
Perón, Juan
Perryman, Rufus
Petry, Dan
Pfeiffer’s Famous
Phelan, Michael
Philadelphia Athletics
Philadelphia Eagles
Physical Fitness Program for Colored People in Civilian Defense
Pierson, Plenette
Pingree, Hazen
Pingree’s Potato Patches
Pink Floyd
Pistons. See Detroit Pistons
Pittsburgh Courier
Pittsburgh Steelers
Plank, Eddie
Plimpton, George
Poletown neighborhood: destruction of; GM plant
Poletown Neighborhood Council
Polish Americans: and African American communities; and conflict over Sojourner Truth housing project; Depression-era anti-Polish sentiment; Depression-era union organizing; Hamtramck community; immigrants Poletown neighborhood
Pontchartrain Hotel on Cadillac Square
Pontiac, Michigan; Lions’ move to;
Pistons’ announced plans to move to
Pontiac Silverdome
Pontiac’s War and siege of Detroit (1763)
Poole, Charles
Portalski, Joe
Portman, John
Posey, Buster
Potawatomi peoples
Presley, Elvis
Prince, Tayshaun
The Principles of Scientific Management (Taylor)
Progressive Era
Prohibition; gangs and violent crime; mob business activities; smuggling and U.S.-Canadian border; speakeasies, saloons, and “blind pigs”; and white supremacists
Prost, Alain
Protestants
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Pryakhin, Sergei
Prystai, Metro
Pujols, Albert
Pullman Car Company
Purple Gang
QLine (streetcar system)
race relations: anti-immigrant prejudice; anti-Semitism and racism; black and white NBA players (and basketball’s myth of blackness); capitalism and racial discrimination; conflict over Sojourner Truth Project; Detroit Police and African American community; Great Depression; hate strikes (1940s); immigrants’ attacks on black Detroiters (1863); labor unions of the 1950s; mayoral politics; in the 1960s; race riots of June 1943; and race-based housing discrimination; whiteness as invented racial category; and World War II. See also civil rights movement; immigrants; segregation, racial; white supremacists
race riots of June 1943
Radcliffe, Ted “Double Duty”
radio broadcasts; baseball; Father Coughlin; WDET’s response to Limbaugh; WJR; WTBS and Pistons’ basketball; WWJ in metropolitan Detroit; WXYZ in rural Michigan
railroads and transport manufacturing. See also streetcar system
Rainey, Ma
Randolph, A. Philip
Reading, Richard
Reagan, Ronald
recession of the early 1980s; manufacturing jobs and unemployment rates; U.S. auto industry; and white flight from downtown Detroit
Recreation Department
Recreation Park
Recreation Park Company
redlining. See also housing discrimination, race-based
Red Wings. See Detroit Red Wings
Reeve, Cheryl
Reeves, Ira
Regional Defense Planning Committee
Renaissance Center (“RenCen”)
Reserve Clause
Reuther, Walter: and Battle of the Overpass (1937); and policy of co-determination; support for racial justice; and the UAW
Richards, Paul
Richardson, Jason
Rickenbacker, Eddie
Riegle, Don
The Ring magazine
Rini, Mary
Rivard, Francois
River Gang
River Rouge plant (Dearborn)
Rivera, Diego
Robinson, Bobbie
Robinson, Jackie
Robinson, Smokey
Robinson, Sugar Ray; early life in Detroit; fights against LaMotta; and Joe Louis; Valentine’s Day Massacre (1951)
Robocop (film)
Roby, Douglas
Rockefeller Foundation
Rockwell, Norman
Rodman, Dennis
Roesink, John
Rogers, Robert
Rolling Stone
The Rolling Stones
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit
Romney, George: and Detroit’s 1968 Olympic bid; and downtown stadium plans; and the 1967 uprising; support for fair housing policies; support for racial justice and civil rights; and the Tigers’ 1968 World Series win
Romney, Mitt
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.: Coughlin’s attacks on; “green light” letter to baseball commissioner Landis (1945); and Jesse Owens’s position at Ford; and Joe Louis; New Deal programs; opening Keyworth Stadium; repeal of Prohibition; World War II
Roosevelt Park
Rose, Jalen
Rose Bowl (1948)
“Rosie the Riveter”
Ross, Diana
Rote, Tobin
Rouge Park
Rouse, Charles
Rowe, Lynwood “Schoolboy”
Roxborough, Charles
Roxborough, Charles, Jr.
Roxborough, John
“ruin porn”
Russian Five (hockey)
Ruth, Babe
Ryan, John
Salsinger, H.G.
San Antonio Spurs
San Diego Padres
San Francisco Giants
Sandoval, Pablo
Saturday Evening Post
Savold, Lee
Schembechler, Bo
Schmeling, Max
Schmidt, Charlie
Schmidt, Helmut
Schmidt, Joe
Schneider, John
Schreiber, Belle
Schuyler, George
Scientific American
Scott, Barbara Ann
Scutaro, Marco
Seabiscuit
Seagram’s whiskey
Seattle Pilots
Seereiter, John
segregation, racial; armed forces during World War II; and auto workers; conflict over Sojourner Truth Project; and criminal justice system, ; dissimilarity indexes of northern U.S. cities; Great Depression; Grosse Pointe; Henry Ford’s beliefs in; and housing; and integration of the major leagues; James Baldwin on; Jim Crow system; Joe Louis on; June 1943 race riots and aftermath; in Major League Baseball; and New Deal programs; recreational facilities (1920s)
Selassie, Haile
Selden, George
Selden Standard
Selling, Lowell
Selway, Robert
Sewell, Harley
Shaver, Manila “Bud”
Shaw, Minnie “Ma”
Sherman Act (1890)
Shinola
Shrine of the Black Madonna
Shrine of the Little Flower
Sinatra, Frank
Skov, Glen
slavery
Smith, Bessie
Smith, Gerald L.K.
Smith, John
Smith, Katie
Smith, Mayo
Smith, Tommie
Smith, Walker and Leila
Snyder, Rick
soccer. See also Detroit City Football Club (DCFC) (“City”)
Social Security
softball, women’s
Sojourner Truth housing project
Sorensen, Charles
Southern Pacific Railroad
Southern white migrants; Arnow’s The Dollmaker; the 1943 race riots
Southfield, Michigan
Sparma, Joe
Spencer, Herbert
The Spirit of Detroit (sculpture)
Spoelstra, Watson
Sporting News
Sports Illustrated
St. Louis Browns
St. Louis Cardinals
St. Louis Stars
Stallone, Sylvester
Standard Oil
Stanfield, George
Stanley, Marianne
Stanley Cup (NHL)
Stanton, Tom
Staples, Brent
Star Bloomer Girls
Stearnes, Norman “Turkey”
Stearns, Frederick
Steele, Richard
Stefani, Margaret “Marge”
Stern, David
Stevenson, William “Mickey”
Steward, Emanuel
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Strader, David
streetcar system: contemporary QLine; in the 1890s and early twentieth century; Kronk Ordinance and fares; in the 1920s; Pingree and campaign to end monopoly franchises
STRESS (Stop The Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets) unit
Stroh, Peter
Stroh’s bowling team
Stump, Al
Sugrue, Thomas
Super Bowl (NFL): Eminem’s 2011 Chrysler ad; V (1971); VI (1972); XII (1978); XVI (1982)
Sweet, Gladys
Sweet, Henry
Sweet, Ossian
Tate, Frank
Taubman, Alfred
Tavenner, Frank
Taylor, Frederick Winslow
Teamsters
televised sports: Hockey Night in Canada; NFL football; TV blackout rule; World Series viewership (1968/2012)
temperance movement
The Temptations
Tenerowicz, Rudolph
Tennessee Titans
Texas Rangers
Thomas, Duane
Thomas, Isiah; on growing up poor in Chicago; and Pistons’ Bad Boys; on Pistons’ owner Davidson; post-Pistons career; remarks about Larry Bird and skills of black and white players
Thomas, Mary
Thomas, R.J.
Thomas-Detroit Motor Company
Thompson, Heather Ann
Thompson, William G.
Three Fires Alliance
Tigers. See Detroit Tigers
Tiger Stadium (“The Corner”); and African American fans; last game played at (1999); Lions games at; physical building; stadium Fan Club and plans to save
Tiger Stadium Fan Club
Time magazine
Tinsley, Jamaal
Tirico, Mike
Tolan, Eddie
Toronto Maple Leafs
Townsend, Francis
Trammell, Alan
Trezza, Betty
Triplett, Wally
Truman, Harry
Trump, Donald
Truth, Sojourner
The Truth About Gerald Smith (Draper)
Tucker, Eulah Elizabeth “Betty”
Tulsa massacre (1921)
Turner, Edward
Turner, Glenn
Tuskegee Airmen
Twenty-First Amendment
Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty (Leerhsen)
Tyson, Ty
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe)
Underground Railroad
Underground Railroad Memorial
Union Party
unions and organized labor: African American workers; auto industry; Flint workers and Great GM Sit-Down Strike; Ford’s $5-per-day wage; Ford’s anti-union policies/tactics; and Great Depression; labor politics in the 1950s; major league players’ associations; and wartime production. See also United Automobile Workers (UAW)
United Automobile Workers (UAW); African American members; Battle of the Overpass and Ford company; Fair Employment Practices Committee; Flint Sit-Down Strike (1936–37); and hiring discrimination; and June 1943 race riots and aftermath; Reuther; support for racial justice; World War II wartime production and co-determination policy
University of Detroit Memorial Arena
University of Detroit Stadium
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; football stadium (“the Big House”); women’s softball
Urban Land magazine
Urban League
urban renewal: Black Bottom neighborhoods; “black removal” and racial politics of the 1960s; Lafayette Park. See also downtown Detroit redevelopment
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
U.S. Olympic Association (USOA)
U.S. Soccer Federation
U.S. Steel
USA Today
Valentine’s Day Massacre (1951 Robinson-LaMotta fight)
Van Antwerp, Eugene
Vanderbeck, George
Vaughan, Sarah
Verlander, Justin
Vice magazine
Vietnam War
Vinton Building
Virgil, Ozzie
Volkswagen Beetle
Wagner, Honus
Walk to Freedom (1963)
Wall Street Crash (1929)
Wall Street Journal
Wallace, Ben
Wallace, David
Wallace, Rasheed
War on Poverty
Washington, Forrester
Washington Post
Watson, Everett
Watson, John
The Way I Am (Eminem and Jenkins)
Wayne State University; and downtown stadium plans; Law School
Webb, Skeeter
West, Jerry
Western League
Westinghouse Company’s War Production Coordinating Committee
What’s Going On (1971 Gaye album)
Whitaker, Lou
White, Dolly Brumfield
white flight from downtown Detroit
white supremacists: Anti-Saloon League; Black Legion; blogger Kersey; and boxer Jack Johnson; Father Coughlin; and immigrants; and Joe Louis as African American athlete; and Joe Louis–Schmeling boxing matchups; the Klan in 1920s Detroit; Nazi Germany; policing and criminal justice system; pre–World War II; and Prohibition. See also Ku Klux Klan
Whitney Building
Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City (Thompson)
“Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam” (1967 Martin Luther King speech)
Williams, Hank
Williams, Myron
Williams, Sharita
Williams, Walker A.
Willkie, Wendell
Willow Run assembly plant
Wilson, Earl
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Winton, Alexander
women Detroiters; baseball clubs (1860–80); DCFC soccer team; early Ford workers; Mary Beck’s mayoral campaign; Prohibition-era prostitution; wartime production work; WNBA players; and women’s baseball league (AAGPBL) during World War II
Wonder, Stevie
Wood, Gar
Wood, John
Woodstock, William H.
Woodward Avenue
Workers Party
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
World Hockey Association
World Series (MLB): in 1887 (Wolverines’ win); in 1919 (Black Sox Scandal); in 1934 (Tigers’ defeat); in 1935 (Tigers’ win); in 1945 (Tigers’ win); in 1968 (Tigers’ win); in 1984 (Tigers’ win); in 2012 (Tigers’ defeat)
World War I
World War II; African Americans and race relations; and Detroit auto industry; Joe Louis and; and Major League Baseball; Nazi Germany and start of; wartime production; women’s production work
Worthy, James
Wright, Richard
Wrigley, Philip
Wrigley Field
Wrona, Esther
X, Malcolm
Yamasaki, Minoru
Yankee Stadium
York, Rudy
Young, Coleman; and boxer Hearns; and Detroit crime problem; and Detroit police force; and Detroit’s economic downturn (1980s); early life in Detroit; as first black mayor; and “Freeman Field Mutiny” (1945); HUAC subpoena; New York Times’ Chafets on; and Pistons’ departure for Pontiac; and Pistons’ owner Davidson; and Poletown demolitions; re-election (1977); support for downtown stadium; and Tiger Stadium
Zinn, Howard
Zito, Barry
Zollner, Fred