p. 11-79. The Great Redevelopment Project: Regenerating the Core City. Considers market for Negro housing in Detroit and discriminatory praces in relocating Negroes.
Catalog entry (Wayne State University): http://elibrary.wayne.edu/record=b1671051~S47
Speech before the National Asosciation of Counties
Residential Segregation Trends in the Detroit Metropolitan Area
Compares census data, 1940, 1950 and 1960.
Catalog entry (Reuther Library): https://reuther.wayne.edu/files/UP002184.pdf
[Program for the] 10th Anniversary of the Muskegon Civic League, a Neighborhood Unit of the Urban League of Greater Muskegon, Sunday, September 17, 1961 Muskegon, 1961
Gives historical highlights, purposes of organization, chronology, officers and members past and present.
An American Dilemma, 20th anniversary ed.
Includes some material on UAW, Ford Motor Company, Sojourner Truth and the 1943 Riots, police-community relations
Also located at: Catalog entry (University of Quebec - catalog in French): http://virtuolien.uqam.ca/tout/UQAM_BIB001026596
Names of Colored Persons Listed in the 1868 Directory [of Saginaw, Michigan. Saginaw, no date]
Two alphabets, one for the east, the other the west side, lists 57 persons, 19 of whom are "hotel employees," 15 barbers, with place of residence.
Parity of Births for the City of Detroit, by Economic Status and Color, 1940-1950
Finds non-white mothers have more children at younger age; as affluence and urbanization increase, fertility decreases.
Catalog entry (Wayne State University): http://elibrary.wayne.edu/record=b2088818~S47
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Contains much detail on the Detroit branch: internal activities (1914, p.8 and 1957, p.29); national conferences held in Detroit (1921, p. 69 and 1936, p. 27); receipt of Thalheimer award (1948, p. 17); and lauding of Dr. Alf Thomas, promoter of $100 dinners (1957, p.18) Reports on employment and labor relation: appointment of two Negroes to Detroit police force (1914, p.18); stand on Ford strike (1941, p. 30-31); survey and efforts to increase employment, Port Huron (1952, p. 70); and to eliminate job discrimination in the GM plants in Grand Rapids (1953, p.57) Describes countering of discrimination in restaurants, Pretzel bell, Ann Arbor (1940, p.27) and those near plants in Muskegon (1954, p. 52); in theatres, Detroit (1914, p.7), Grand Rapids, Dr. E.N. Bolden case (1928, p.15) and attempts to ban "Birth of a Nation" (1931, p.19); in housing, the Sweet Case (1925, p.12-14; 1926, p.7-8), Sojourner Truth (1942, p.22-24), Willow Run Project barring of Howard Floewrs (1947, p. 67); restrictive covenant stalemate (1951, p.45), efforts to secure open housing in Detroit, Hamtramck, and Benton Harbor (1954, p.35), denial of dormitory space to Marjorie Franklin (1925, p. 25) and to Jean Blackwell (1934, p.31-3); in sports, benching of Willis Ward when Michigan played Georgia Tech in 1934; and in public accomodations, exclusion of three Highland Park seniors from outing to Washington DC (1925, p26-27), and Bob-Lo Excursion Company (1947, p. 28-29, 1948, p. 37). Documents legal defense of individuals (Lee Sullivan, colored construction employee in 1925), extradition cases (Thomas Ray, 1921, p.32-34; Mr. and Mrs. John Rowland of Battle Creek, 1923, p.13; Dove Ballard of Albion, 1931, p.10-11; and Charles Thomas, Lansing, 1941, p. 24) and the Detroit Race Riot of 1943 (p.24-26) File examined lacked 1911, 1944-46 and 1962-69 Reports.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Catalog entry (Detroit Public Library): https://detp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:194017/one
Program, Twelth Annual Conference at Detroit, Michigan, June 26-July 1, 1921.
Forward with Action, Annual Report for 1943 [Detroit, 1943]
Housing problems and 1943 Riot make this report of special interest.
National Association for the advancement of Colored People, Detroit Branch.
Possibly: Catalog entry (Reuther): https://reuther.wayne.edu/files/UR000244_0.pdf