On 16 April 1970, a white foreman at a Chrysler plant in Detroit threatened to murder a Black worker. When the worker complained Chrysler went to sack the worker claiming he had a knife. Around 1,000 workers, Black and white, walked out on strike in protest, shutting the plant for an entire weekend until management backed down.
Info in the Working Class History podcast episode about black workers organising in Detroit at that time: https://libcom.org/.../e12-league-revolutionary-black.
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