Profile on a Metropolis, a Case Book.
subject: Detroit (Michigan
subject: Discrimination
subject: Housing
description: p. 11-79. The Great Redevelopment Project: Regenerating the Core City. Considers market for Negro housing in Detroit and discriminatory praces in relocating Negroes.
creator: Mowitz, Robert J.
creator: Wright, Deil S.
source: Wayne State University
publisher: Detroit, Wayne State University Press
date: 1962
relation: Catalog entry (Wayne State University): http://elibrary.wayne.edu/record=b1671051~S47

Speech before the National Asosciation of Counties
subject: Riots
description: Discusses Riot and its causes.
creator: Moynihan, Daniel P.
source: Detroit Public Library
publisher: Detroit
date: 1967
coverage: 3 pages

Residential Segregation Trends in the Detroit Metropolitan Area
subject: Detroit (Michigan)
subject: Housing
subject: Segregation
description: Compares census data, 1940, 1950 and 1960.
creator: Musial, John. J.
source: Wayne State University Archives
date: 1966
relation: Catalog entry (Reuther Library): https://reuther.wayne.edu/files/UP002184.pdf
coverage: 4 pages

[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
subject: Urban League of Greater Muskegon
subject: Muskegon Civil League
description: Gives historical highlights, purposes of organization, chronology, officers and members past and present.
creator: Muskegon Civic League
source: Holly Public Library
date: 1961
contributor: Urban League of Greater Muskegon
coverage: 16 pages

An American Dilemma, 20th anniversary ed.
subject: Community relations
subject: Ford Motor Company
subject: Riots
subject: Sojourner Truth Housing Project
subject: United Automobile Workers (UAW)
subject: Police
description: Includes some material on UAW, Ford Motor Company, Sojourner Truth and the 1943 Riots, police-community relations
creator: Myrdal, Gunnar
source: Wayne State University
publisher: New York, Harper and Row
date: c. 1962
relation: Also located at: Catalog entry (University of Quebec - catalog in French): http://virtuolien.uqam.ca/tout/UQAM_BIB001026596
coverage: 1483 pages

Names of Colored Persons Listed in the 1868 Directory [of Saginaw, Michigan. Saginaw, no date]
subject: Directories
subject: Saginaw (Michigan)
description: 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.
source: HoPL
publisher: Saginaw, MI
type: Directory
coverage: 2 pages

Parity of Births for the City of Detroit, by Economic Status and Color, 1940-1950
subject: Detroit (Michigan)
subject: Economics
subject: Population
description: Finds non-white mothers have more children at younger age; as affluence and urbanization increase, fertility decreases.
creator: Nathan, Roger W.
publisher: Detroit
date: 1952
contributor: Wayne State University
relation: Catalog entry (Wayne State University): http://elibrary.wayne.edu/record=b2088818~S47
coverage: 122 pages

Annual Report, 1911-date.
subject: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
subject: Detroit (Michigan)
subject: Civil rights
subject: Race relations
description: 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.
creator: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
source: Detroit Public Library
publisher: New York
date: 1911
relation: 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
type: Report
coverage: 43 pages

Program, Twelth Annual Conference at Detroit, Michigan, June 26-July 1, 1921.
subject: Detroit (Michigan)
subject: Civil rights
subject: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
creator: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
source: Michigan Historical Center
date: 1921
contributor: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
type: Program
coverage: 24 pages

Forward with Action, Annual Report for 1943 [Detroit, 1943]
subject: Detroit (Michigan)
subject: Housing
subject: National Association for the advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
subject: Riots
description: Housing problems and 1943 Riot make this report of special interest.
creator: National Association for the advancement of Colored People, Detroit Branch.
source: Wayne State University Archives
date: 1943
contributor: National Association for the advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
relation: Possibly: Catalog entry (Reuther): https://reuther.wayne.edu/files/UR000244_0.pdf
type: Report
coverage: 40 pages