William Harris

Jun 28, 2024 | truthdig.com | William Harris |William Harris

Joe MolloyAcid Detroit: A Psychedelic Story of Motor City MusicRepeater Books, 2023Detroit was once a city of postcard dreams, the place associated above all others with the rise of the northern Black middle class. It was where, in 1914, Henry Ford made history when he gave autoworkers an unprecedented $5 a day, and then again, in the 1920s, when he hired large numbers of Black migrants moving up from the South.