Black City, Black Unions?

Detroit in the 1970s is startlingly different from the factory complex associated with the auto industry, the UAW, and Walter Reuther. Auto workers no longer rush to and from huge industrial plants on the east and west sides. Now the major traffic flows are of white suburbanites driving into the downtown commercial center and inching their way out before darkness. The new buildings downtown stick out like shining thumbs amid parking lots, expressways, and vacant land—less than 30 percent of...