The Council, chaired by Henry Nickleberry, UAW Sub-Regional Office 1D, was responsible for hiring of the first blacks in Saginaw area retail establishments. Articles were examined in UAW office.
[Saginaw] Tri-County Civil Rights Coordinating Council
Occupational Preferences and Expectations of Negro Students Attending a High School Located in a Lower-Socio-Economic Area
Study based on questionnaires of 284 Detroit high school students in 1963, recommends strengthened guidance program to produce more mature occupational choices.
Catalog Entry (Wayne State University): https://elibrary.wayne.edu/record=b2085233~S47
Brief History of St. Mary's Peter Claver Center, Jackson, Michigan
This center for Catholic community activity was destroyed by fire in 1969. History was examined in Jackson Community Relations office.
Operation Go - A Special Project for Potential Dropouts from a Junior High School Situated in a Lower Socio-Economic Area of the City of Detroit
Team of able teachers, reduced pupil-teacher ratio, and many field trips characterize program which significantly lowers number of drop outs.
Catalog Entry (Wayne State University): https://elibrary.wayne.edu/record=b2085278~S47
Describes history in Michigan, 1933-1936; records killings, lists announced enemies to be "Catholics, Jews, and Negroes."
Revolutionary Workers League of the United States
Also located at: Catalog Entry (University of Michigan): https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/003068019
Nightmare in Detroit: a Rebellion and Its Victims
Narrates the deaths of forty-three in the 1967.
Catalog Entry (Wayne State University): https://elibrary.wayne.edu/record=b1706824~S47
The Douglass Community Association and Center
Evaluates the program of the Association, created in 1919 as recreational facility for Negro servicemen stationed at Camp Custer. Recommends enlargement of function beyond recreation, and services to all races in area.
Also located at: Catalog Entry (Western Michigan University): https://primo-pmtna01.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/4dvb3u/01WMU_ALMA2182978030002436
Letter to Public Affairs Committee Criticizing their Pamphlet, "Discrimination in Housing in These 10 Cities"
Possibly - Catalog Entry (Reuther): http://archives.wayne.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/657913
Sees employment and housing discrimination continuing, police brutality lessening.
Possibly - Catalog Entry (Reuther): http://archives.wayne.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/657914
Social and Political Reactions to the Slavery Question in Kalamazoo
Papers from the History Seminar v.18, Kalamazoo College. Describes some slave escapes, and underground railroad activities, citing Kalamazoo Gazette as chief information source.