Detroit: City of Champions

by David Lee Poremba

Book Overview

As the roaring twenties came to an end and a new decade dawned, the United States found itself locked in the grips of the Great Depression. The City of Detroit was no exception as industry laid off workers and bread lines formed across the city. Detroit Mayor Frank Murphy let the country in supporting state and federal welfare programs to help people through the economic crisis. By the middle of the 1930s, Detroit began picking itself up out of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752413686
• ISBN13: 9780752413686
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"