Welcome to this panel. I will introduce our panel. We will look forward to the responses with you in the audience for a broader conversation. First we will have beth hates. F is a professor in the department of africanamerican studies at Wayne State University. Excuse me. Departmentis a professor at Wayne State University. She is the author of two books. Porters s pullman the politics of black america. 19141917. Her second book is, the making of black detroit in the age of henry ford, 1920 1945. She is currently completing another book on detroit titled, black detroit and the promise of america, 1940 11970, which she is coauthoring with timothy hs. Awill have michael fellow in the michigan test in the of egalitarianism metropolis at the university of michigan. He is currently working on a manuscript entitled, wildcat of the stritch streets, which examines Police Reform and postwar detroit alongside social organizations. We will have Heather Thompson. Heather is a strain on the faculty