HIST105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Oconee County, Georgia, Berry Gordy, John Lee Hooker
11 Sep 2016
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History 105: motown and the age of integration. Berry gordy (1929-) buys hitsville usa: half house-half office for motown records, in the basement studio a or the snake pit. Life before hitsville: boxing, the korean war, 3d record mart, the ford motor company. Motown: breaking down racial integration: detroit was considered jewel of american industrial revolution, move of motown in the 1970"s was a shift much like the unraveling of. The city of the future (detroit: henry ford (1863-1947) & birth of the auto industry. Didn"t like investors or unions: the great migration & north (talented african americans moving from south) Detroit became fasting growing city in the world. Racial tensions for civil rights were growing. Police took sides for of white rioters. Marshall law instilled (violence, deaths, & injuries) African american: rock n roll signers & the big record labels: gordy was influenced by the talent black acts of the past (muddy,
