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Digging Detroit’s Tom Reed and Pete Kalinski discuss the early days of Detroit’s automotive history with historians Bailey Sisoy Isgro and Madelyn Rzadkowolski.

Topics include:

• Advertising’s current portrayal of the Dodge Brothers
• Dodge’s famous dependability—and fix-it-yourself car kits
• General Patton and the Dodge military contract
• Women and Detroit’s cigar industry as a vehicle for entry into the workforce (and why Detroit was a cigar center)
• Using campaigns of conscience to get women into the workforce during WWI
• Detroit’s African American 600% population boom between 1910-1920
• Detroit as the “Paris of the Midwest”
• More campaigns of conscience to force women out of the workplace after WWII
• Dodge’s role in the arsenal of democracy
• Fear of women earning too much–and gaining political clout)
• Promoting the myth … Read More… →
  

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