Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries: The Story of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers

Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries offers a fresh perspective on class, race, and revolution in the United States. Drawing on more than forty hours of interviews with former members of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Scott and Katz-Fishman share the rich story of the League, including the women and students. That story includes the history of the automotive industry in Detroit, the 1967 Detroit Rebellion, and the wildcat strike that sparked the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM). The authors describe the rise of the League from 1968 to 1971. They explore the centrality of struggle and political education as the League split and a section of League comrades moved into revolutionary organizations and social movement spaces, many of which remain active today. League comrades share their analysis of the current moment and staying the course of revolutionary struggle.

Walda Katz-Fishman (Author)
WALDA KATZ-FISHMAN is a scholar activist, popular educator and author, and professor of sociology at Howard University. She was a founding member and former board chair of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide. She is a contributing author and editor of popular education toolkits and books including The United States Social Forum: Perspectives of a Movement, The Roots of Terror, Today’s Globalization, and The Critical Classroom.

Jerome Scott (Author)
JEROME SCOTT, a former autoworker, labor organizer in the auto plants of Detroit in the 1960s and 1970s, and member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, was the founding director of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide. He is a contributing author and editor of popular education toolkits and books including The United States Social Forum: Perspectives of a Movement, The Roots of Terror, Today’s Globalization, and The Critical Classroom.