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Discombobulation: When Clans Collide Under the Influence of Urban Renewal, Baby Boomers, Knuckleheads, and Stupidville
Discombobulation: When Clans Collide Under the Influence of Urban Renewal, Baby Boomers, Knuckleheads, and Stupidville
Discombobulation: When Clans Collide Under the Influence of Urban Renewal, Baby Boomers, Knuckleheads, and Stupidville
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Wayne Rudolph Davidson delves deeper into his family history in this second book of his When Clans Collide trilogy.

Exploring his own personal branch that stems from the genealogical trunk of the distinguished Davidson family tree, he writes from the perspective of an African-American male born in the post-World War II era caught in a firestorm of extraordinary social change, civil disturbance, and a burgeoning drug culture.

His life runs in tandem with the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to urban centers in the North and historic events such as the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X,the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy. He seamlessly blends his family genealogy and his own mistakes and triumphs with American history.

From being an unemployed autoworker living and working in a dark tunnel to positions of responsibility and authority as a member of the U.S. Army in strategic places around the world, in this book, the author gets a chance rarely given to African-American men: to tell his storybefore his peers instead of before a magistrate.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherAbbott Press
Release dateSep 16, 2015
ISBN9781458219145
Discombobulation: When Clans Collide Under the Influence of Urban Renewal, Baby Boomers, Knuckleheads, and Stupidville
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Wayne Rudolph Davidson

Wayne Rudolph Davidson, a research analyst, earned a doctoral degree in management and organizational leadership from the University of Phoenix. He is also the author of Manufacturing African American Self-Employment in the Detroit Metropolitan Area. He and his wife, Bertha, have four girls with four-year college degrees and one granddaughter. They currently live in Michigan.

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