Workers were not just coming from the southern U.S. In the book “Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford," Beth Tompkins Bates writes that there were over 50 different nationalities of employees ...

The docuseries will explore pressures, both political and economic, that sparked the migration. According to Gates, Detroit's ...

Henry Ford's parents ... he set up the Ford Motor Company. He still met resistance to his ideas for mass production of a car the average worker could afford. But he stuck to his goal and finally ...

The automobile maker did not experience success until midway through his life and failed to keep that success going, but ...