[PDF] Brief History Of The Flint Public Library eBook

Author : Andrew R. Highsmith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 11,2 MB
Release : 2016-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 022641955X

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Flint, Michigan, is widely seen as Detroit s Detroit: the perfect embodiment of a ruined industrial economy and a shattered American dream. In this deeply researched book, Andrew Highsmith gives us the first full-scale history of Flint, showing that the Vehicle City has always seen demolition as a tool of progress. During the 1930s, officials hoped to renew the city by remaking its public schools into racially segregated community centers. After the war, federal officials and developers sought to strengthen the region by building subdivisions in Flint s segregated suburbs, while GM executives and municipal officials demolished urban factories and rebuilt them outside the city. City leaders later launched a plan to replace black neighborhoods with a freeway and new factories. Each of these campaigns, Highsmith argues, yielded an ever more impoverished city and a more racially divided metropolis. By intertwining histories of racial segregation, mass suburbanization, and industrial decline, Highsmith gives us a deeply unsettling look at urban-industrial America."

Author : Gary Flinn
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 36,19 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1625858418

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"Beneath Flint's auto history lies a buried past. Local Civil War hero Franklin Thompson was actually Sarah Edmonds in disguise. Thread Lake's Lakeside Amusement Park offered seaplane rides and a giant roller coaster partly built over the water before closing in 1931. Smith-Bridgman's, the largest department store in town, reigned supreme for more than a century at the same location. And the city's most prolific inventor, Lloyd Copeman, created the electric stove, flexible ice cube tray and automatic toaster. Gary Flinn showcases the obscure and surprising elements of the Vehicle City's past, including how the 2014 water crisis was a half century in the making."-- Page [4] of cover.

Author : James M. Matarazzo
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 15,33 MB
Release : 2017-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1787149617

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This handbook aims to be an integral text for students of library and information science and a ready-reference for information professional practitioners. The chapters provide a construct through which any information professional may learn abut the major challenges facing them in the early part of the 21st century.

Author : Margaret Howard
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 31,15 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Public libraries
ISBN :

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"This brief survey of the history of the development of libraries in Georgia serves as a background for the present study of the history and development of the Flint River Regional Library, a five-county system with headquarters in Griffin, Georgia. This particular library was chosen for three reasons: (1) its history had never been written, (2) its present director, Roberrt N. Smith, requested that a history of the Library be written, (3) the author is on the Library's staff and, therefore, has a deep interest in the subject. Since it is believed that the history and development of the Flint River Regional Library has been a reflection of public library development in Georgia, the study attempts to reveal these reflections"--Pages 10-11.

Author : Edward McClelland
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 13,1 MB
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0807039683

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Winner of the 2021 Midland Authors Book Award in History In a time of great inequality and a gutted middle class, the dramatic story of “the strike heard around the world” is a testament to what workers can gain when they stand up for their rights. The tumultuous Flint sit-down strike of 1936-1937 was the birth of the United Auto Workers, which set the standard for wages in every industry. Midnight in Vehicle City tells the gripping story of how workers defeated General Motors, the largest industrial corporation in the world. Their victory ushered in the golden age of the American middle class and created a new kind of America, one in which every worker had a right to a share of the company’s wealth. The causes for which the strikers sat down—collective bargaining, secure retirement, better wages—enjoyed a half century of success. But now, the middle class is disappearing and economic inequality is at its highest since before the New Deal. Journalist and historian Edward McClelland brings the action-packed events of the strike back to life—through the voices of those who lived it. In vivid play-by-plays, McClelland narrates the dramatic scenes including of the takeovers of GM plants; violent showdowns between picketers and the police; Michigan governor Frank Murphy’s activation of the National Guard; the actions of the militaristic Women’s Emergency Brigade who carried billy clubs and vowed to protect strikers from police; and tense negotiations between labor leader John L. Lewis, GM chairman Alfred P. Sloan, and labor secretary Frances Perkins. The epic tale of the strike and its lasting legacy shows why the middle class is one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century and will guide our understanding of what we will lose if we don’t revive it.